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BRIEF AND GENERAL IDEA^ 



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Drawing and Painting 



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WATER COLOURS ; 



Intended for the Amufennent of the Curious, 

 rather than for the Inftruftion of Artifts. 



Ilhall not meddle with perfpedive : yet, it may 

 not be improper to hint, that perfons who are 

 unacquainted with it can be no proficients in 

 drawing, as is manifeft from the works of fome 

 painters of no fmall fame, in whofe works a ma- 

 thematical eye difcovers very grofs abfurdities. 

 We have many good authors of our own, as 

 well as tranflations from other languages, on the 

 fubjed of perfpecHiive ; from which any one may 

 cafily gain a general conception of the art, and 

 by a little labour become a mafter of it. 



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