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whole group; especially with the assistance 

 of a few trees judiciously placed. There 

 may be cases also, where an improver, with 

 great property all round, may have only a 

 small piece of ground in such a hamlet, 

 and be unable to purchase any more : a 

 building of the character I mentioned, 

 might do all that a lover of painting would 

 wish for, and give him a sort of property 

 in the whole ; and I know that manner of 

 appropriating objects to be the source of 

 much pleasure. 



The buildings in the landscapes of the 

 Bolognese painters have many excellen- 

 cies highly proper to be studied, but which 

 it would be tedious to discriminate. The 

 style of landscape in that school was in 

 a great degree formed upon that of the 

 Venetians, and especially of Titian ; and 

 his manner of forming groups of buildings 

 which has just been described, may, I think, 

 be traced in a number of their works : it is 

 probable indeed that the two landscapes on 

 which those groups make so principal a fi- 

 gure, were favourite compositions ; as they 



