SECTION II. 



Note I. Page 16. 



" Fuit et arborum cura legibus priscis ; cautumque est XII. Tabulis, 

 ut qui injuria cecidisset alienas, lueret in singulas aeris XXV." — Pliny, 

 Hist. Nat. lib. xvii. 1. 



Note II. Page 17. 



'■'■Vepdv'^pvov fX€Ta(l)VTev€iv ; Veterem Arborem transferre vel trans- 

 plantare." — Eras. Adag. p. 419. 



Note III. Page 17. 



It is remarkable that there is not to be found, in all Homer, any thing 

 like picturesque description, although Pope in his translation has abun- 

 dantly supplied the want. On Virgil and the other Roman poets, nearly 

 a similar remark may be made : and this defect in ancient poetry (as 

 Twining has well observed, in his Dissertations on the Poetics of Aris- 

 totle,) naturally proceeds from a similar defect in the sister art of 

 painting. 



In Pliny's account of the Greek artists, we find no mention made of 

 a landscape painter among them, nor any thing like a landscape itself, 

 in his list of their most celebrated productions. He informs us, how- 

 ever, that a Roman painter named Ludius, who lived in the reign of 

 Augustus, first struck out the art of painting landscape, which he exe- 

 cuted in fresco, in so very pleasing a manner, and at so very moderate 

 an expense, that every body employed him. His subjects, he says, were 

 villas, porticos, gardens, groves, hills, rivers, seaport towns, and the 

 like, and that they were enlivened with human figures in abundance, 

 engaged in all sorts of occupations ; the whole forming a most pleasing 

 representation (blandissimo aspectu.) Hist. Nat. lib. xxxv. 10. 



Twining likewise accurately observes, that landscape painting in 

 Pliny's time, though known, was not an established branch of painting, 

 as it had not even acquired a name ; for Pliny, who on other occasions 



