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n n*al principles of painting, he must not ne- 

 glect either the principles, or the practice of 

 gardening. He will therefore in the execu* 

 tion, omit, or modify many of those circum- 

 stances, that may be suited to the canvass 

 only. 



I have always been of opinion, that the 

 two professions ought to be joined together, 

 and I lately heard an anecdote which con- 

 firmed me in that idea. I was told, that 

 when Vanbrugh was consulted about the 

 garden at Blenheim, he said, " you must 

 send for a landscape-painter \ a very natu- 

 ral answer to come from him, who, as Sir 

 Joshua Reynolds observes, has of all archi- 

 tects most attended to painter-like effects. 

 As he did attend so much to those effects 

 in his buildings, I cannot help regretting 

 that lie did not turn his thoughts towards 

 the embellishments of the garden, as far as 

 they might serve to accompany his archi- 

 tecture; which, though above all others open 

 to criticism, is above most others striking in 

 its effects. A garden of Vanbrugh's, even 

 in idea, will probably excite as much ridi- 



