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r. Repton's Letter to Mr. Price - 1 



Mr. Price's reafon for anfwering Mr. Repton's Letter fo 

 much in detail - - - - - - -25 



As Mr. R. agrees with him in the general principles of im- 

 provement, the difference between them is with regard to 

 the propriety or poffibility of reducing them to pradice 

 — the trial as yet has never fairly been made - - 30 



Mr. R.'s principal aim throughout his Letter, is tofhew, that 

 by a ftudy of painting, only wild ideas are acquired. Such 

 a general notion not authorifed by the works of painters — 

 exemplified in thofe of Claude and N. Pouffin - -32 

 In giving the title of "TheNewSyftem of Improvement, by 

 Negled and Accident," Mr. R. has tried to ridicule his 

 own practice - - - - - - -34 



The utility of that pradice and method of ftudy difcuffed — 



illuftrated by a paffage from Helvetius - - - 35 



Its effect in gardening - - - - - - 36 



Not attended to by Mr. Brown, and one chief caufe of his 

 defects. It is a method of ftudy very generally purfued by 

 painters in their ftudy of nature, but not by improvers - 37 

 Mr. R. however had purfued it according to his own account 41 

 Mr. P. had taken the liberty of recommending, in addition 

 to it, the ftudy of the higher artifts; but is glad to hear 

 Mr. R. had anticipated his advice, and that he acknow- 

 ledges it to be a ftudy effential to the profeflion - - 43 

 In their party down the Wye, Mr. R. treated lighty the idea 

 of taking hints from a natural river, towards forming an arti- 

 ficial one. Hehadfound by practical experience, that there 

 is lefs affinity between painting and gardening, than hisen- 

 thufiafm for the pidturefcpie made him originally fancy - 45 

 The principal aim of Mr. R. is to weaken that affinity; but 

 his own method of proceeding, proves the clofenefs of it — 

 that method difcuffed, and compared with the painter's - 46 

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