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picturesque ; and in the same proportion 

 that the wheels and the intricate parte of 

 the mill are less distinct in the picture of 

 Bourdon, than they appear in the land- 

 scapes bf Ruysdale or Hobbima, they are 

 more so in thai of Boucher : the picture 

 bf the former, is a model of the use which 

 tilay be made of the qualities of the pictu- 

 resque; that of the lat'ter, one of the best ex- 

 amples I know of their abuse. 



Reubens ia his lahdscape&,appears tb have 

 paid as li ttle attention to the shapes of his 

 buildings, as to those of his trees; having of- 

 ten placed the most vulgar forms 'of both, 

 in tes grandest bbrrrpbsitioiis. The great 

 £bmtsat which Ire aimed, and in which he 

 so admirably succeeded, were cbldur, 'attA 

 effect; and where they take possession of 

 « painter's mk*d, he *eaa seldom prevail up- 

 on M'msdf to reject, 'feardly to alter ike 

 forms of those objects, on which such 'cap- 

 tivating qualities are eminently display ecL 

 I have hitherto dwelt almost entirely oa 

 •tWe todB<5a^pes of those *n«sfcers, wfeo ^etfe 

 ttfso letofltietit in tihe higher^atts of ihe^t, 

 and have only touched occasionally on the 



