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fhew, that by an attention to pictures, and 

 to the method of ftudy purfued by pain- 

 ters, only wild and unpolifhed ideas are 

 acquired. I cannot but wonder, that a 

 perfon whofe talents for drawing might . 

 have led him to form a more juft opinion 

 on the fubject, mould have conceived that 

 the ftudy of an art, which has been em- 

 ployed in tracing whatever is moft beau- 

 tiful and elegant, as well as what is wild 

 and romantic, mould convert its admirers 

 into lb many Cherokees, and make them 

 lofe all relifh but for what is favage and 

 uncultivated. I will beg you to reflect on 

 what fome of the higheft artifts have done 

 both in their pictures and drawings, and 

 on the character of their productions; you 

 rauft be fenfible that the mixture of gay 

 and highly cultivated nature, with the 

 moft fplendid and finilhed works of art in 

 Claude Lorrain — the ftudied and uniform 

 grandeur of the landscapes of N. Pouffin, 

 d the 



