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wherein is no white at all ; but it is to be re- 

 membered, that thefe llrong fhadows are re- 

 quired only in the front obje6ls of the pidure, 

 and that the deep lhadows of the fine colours 

 ^ muft be allayed with black, or brown, to give 

 them their natural obfcurity. When the dark 

 fliadows are finiftied, you may begin to heighten 

 the lights, by adding white to the colours with 

 which you laid in the different parts of your 

 pidlure ; obferving always, that as obje6ls are 

 little fhadowed, they mufl be little or nothing 

 heightened when very diflant ; but front-figures 

 may be heightened very much : yet we fhould 

 avoid ufing pure white in the heightening of any 

 objed, unlefs it be of a white colour, or hath a 

 polifhed furface, or be fome other body that re- 

 fle6ls the light very ftrongly, 



When all the particular parts of a pidlure arc 

 finiihed feparateiy, the whole is to be carefully 

 furveyed and confidered, to fee that there is har- 

 mony throughout: for, if diflances nearefl to 

 the fore-ground are too faint, they will feem to 

 be farther off than their perfpedtive proportions 

 will allow : or, if your greateft diftances are ex- 



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