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leflen the confequence of that art, to which 

 you are indebted for your fupejiority in. 

 your own. 



Thofe drawings of your's which were 

 {hewn to me, (when confidered as thofe of 

 an improver, and not of a profefled artift) 

 manifefted talents which made me wifh. to 

 know their author. You will forgive me, 

 however, if I mention in my own juftifica- 

 tion, and by no means with an intention of 

 hurting you, that they ftill (according to 

 my conceptions) pointed out reafons for re- 

 commending to you what I did, and do 

 ftrongly recommend — a ftudy of the higher 

 artifts ; for it is a ftudy which never mould be 

 remitted, either by the painter, or the im- 

 prover. In the fame note* I alfo mentioned 

 what I thought a very necefTary caution to 

 all profeflbrs of your art; not lefs fo than to 

 thofe of painting: I mean the danger of 



* Effay on the picture fque, page 351. 



becoming 



