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anîfans.— And firft, of the commofi way prac- 

 tifed by the print-fhops about the town, in their 

 views of palaces, gardens, figures, and ail pic- 

 tures for common faJe. Thefe are to be coa- 

 fidered as cheap things, done with much expe- 

 dition, and with little ftudy, as to propriety iqt 

 colouring -, for fuch is the judgment of the bulk 

 of the people, that the more glaring they arc 

 in their colouring, and the more diftant from 

 nature, the more they are prized. Thefe com- 

 mon wafliers generally mix a little white in their 

 Jkies and diftances in colouring of prints, be^ 

 caufe it takes . off the harihnefs of an ordinary 

 print, as moft of them are that are fold colour^ 

 çd. 



A fine print, c©loiired by a judicious artift, 

 may be made almoft equal in value to an origi- 

 nal drawing in colours : but for fuch no one 

 will pay a price equal to its worth. To make 

 an intire drawing in the thin or wafliing way, it 

 muft firft be drawn in out-lines, and then you 

 p^ay preceed to finifti it with different colours 

 in its different parts, as the nature of the thing 

 requires, beginning to wafli with water thinly 



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