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fondness for the picturesque, and by hating 

 carried to excess his position, that rough- 

 ness is that particular quality which makes 

 objects chiefly please in painting. From 

 his partiality to this doctrine, he ridicules 

 the idea of having beauty represented in a 

 picture, and addressing himself to the per- 

 son whom he supposes to make so un-pain- 

 ter-like a request, he says, " The art of 

 painting allows you all you wish ; you de- 

 sire to have a beautiful object painted ; 

 your horse, for instance, is led out of the 

 stable in all his pampered beauty. The art 

 of painting is ready to accommodate you ; 

 you have the beautiful form you admired 

 in nature exactly transferred to canvass. 

 Be then satisfied ; the art of painting has 

 given you what you wanted. It is no in- 

 jury to the beauty of your Arabian, if the 

 painter thinks he could have given the 

 graces of his art more forcibly to your cart- 

 horse/'* 



If a person ignorant of the art of paint- 

 ing were to be told, that a painter who 



* Essay on Picturesque Beauty. 



