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artifans.— And firil^ of the common way prac- 

 tifed by the print-fliops about the town, in their 

 views of palaces, gardens, figures, and ail pic- 

 tures for common fale. Thefe are to be con- 

 fidered as cheap things, done with much expe- 

 dition, and v/ith little ftudy, as to propriety in 

 colouring -, for fuch is the judgment of the bulk 

 of the people, that the more glaring they arc 

 in their colouring, and the more diftant from 

 nature, the more they are prized. Thefe com- 

 mon waihers generally mix a little white in their 

 Ikies and diftances in colouring of prints, be- 

 caufe it takes off the harflinefs of an ordinary- 

 print, as moft of them are that are fold colour- 

 ed. 



A fine print, coloured by a judicious artiH, 

 may be made almoft equal in value to an origi* 

 nal drawing in colours : but for fuch no one 

 will pay a price equal to its worth. To make 

 an intire drawing in the thin or wafhing way, it 

 muft firft be drawn in out-lines, and then you 

 may preceed to finiih it with different colours 

 in its different parts, as the nature of the thing 

 re(^uires, beginning to wafh with water thinly 



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