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what I am very glad here again to incul- 

 cate, that an object may be highly fuited 

 to the painter without being on that ac- 

 count picturefque in my fenfe of the word ; 

 nay, fo far from it, that it may, and often 

 does fuit him from fome quality directly 

 oppofite to thofe which I have affigned to 

 that character;* as for inftance, from uni- 

 formity of fhape and of tint. From that 

 uniformity often proceeds what both in 

 colour, and in light and fhadow, is called 

 breadth, which quality of breadth (as I 

 have fhewn in my E flay 4.) will often 

 render an object:, in itfelf neither grand, 

 beautiful, nor picturefque, extremely fuited 

 to the painter. This principle is in fome 

 degree exemplified in the fheep and the 

 deer, which laft, I think, muft be allowed 

 to be comparatively meagre and fpotty, 



* Effay on the Pi&urefque, page 61. 

 4- Ibid. 165. 



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