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shew but little taste or intelligence in lib 

 employer. 



There are other mixtures, however, of 

 stone and wood, which may suit the im- 

 prover no less: than the painter, and which 

 hare generally a pleasing, sometimes a 

 grand effect. These are bridges, where the 

 upper part, consisting of strait timbers with 

 little or no intricacy, is supported by square 

 massive stonepiers. Of these bridges Claude 

 was particularly fond, ; and most commonly 

 placed them at some distance from the eye, 

 where the general plan of that part of the 

 picture was nearly on a level : but there is 

 am drawing in the Liber Veritatis,* where, 

 with the most striking -effect, he has intro- 

 duced one of them in the fore-ground over 

 a rocky ri ver, that appears to pass under it 

 towards the country below ; in which St. 

 Peter's dome is seen at a distance. It is a 

 composition well worth studying ; for it 

 -shews, in the most convincing manner, the 



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