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cannot but remember that beautiful sear 

 port which did belong to Mr. Lock, and 

 which, could pictures choose their own 

 possessors, would never have left him : he 

 must have observed that the architecture 

 on the left hand was regular, perfect, and 

 as smooth as such finished buildings ap-r 

 pear in nature. 



But with regard to entire buildings in 

 contradistinction to ruins, the back grounds 

 and landscapes of all the great masters are 

 full of them, and in many the ruins few in 

 proportion; so much so, that in the nu- 

 merous set of Caspars published by Vi- 

 yares, there are scarcely any ruins, though 

 numberless entire buildings. 



No painter more diligently studied pic- 

 turesque disposition and effect than Paul 

 Veronese ; yet architecture of the most 

 regular and finished kind, forms a very 

 essential part of his. magnificent composi- 

 tions. Many of these splendid edifices 

 have the most truly beautiful appearance 

 in pictures, especially when they are ac- 

 companied, as in Claude's, by trees of 



