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wherein is no white at all ; but it is to be rc^ 

 membered, that thefe ftrong ihadows are re- 

 quired only in the front objedts of the pidlure, 

 and that the deep fliadows of the fine colours 

 muft be allayed with black, or brown, to give 

 them their natural obfcurity. When the dark 

 Ihadows are finifhed, you may begin to heighten 

 the lights, by adding white to the colours with 

 which you laid in the different parts of your 

 pi(5lure ; obferving always, that as objedts arc 

 little fhadowed, they muft be little or nothing 

 heightened when very diftant ; but front-figures 

 may be heightened very much : yet we fliould 

 avoid ufing pure white in the heightening of any 

 objed, unlefs it be of a white colour, or hath a 

 polilhed furface, or be fome other body that re^ 

 jBedts the light very ftrongly. 



When all the particular parts of a pidlure are 

 finiflied feparately, the whole is tp be carefully 

 furveyed and confidered, to fee that there is har- 

 mony throughout: for, if diftances neareft to 

 the fore- ground are too faint, they will feem to 

 be farther off than their perfpedive proportions 

 will allow : or, if your greateft diftances are ex- 



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