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I N T R O D U C T I O N- 
P AINTING having already had fo many eloquent and povverfi^ Advo- 
cates, it would now fecm impertinent to tire the Reader in cndeavoi^- 
ing to prove that Art noble and delightful. That it is fo, the Ingeni- 
ous have always, in the ftrpngeft Manner confcfs’d, by their conftam Atten- 
tion and Encouragement : Therefore^ the only Ufe here made ©f an Intro- j 
duiaion, will be to infdrqj the Purchafers of this Work, of the Plan on which 
The Rules, which will be here kid down, for the executing the picafttfg 
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Branch of Painting, of which this Book is to treat, are the Refuk of ; 
PraOtice, and delivered, without the leaft Referve. In Regard to tte er^rav^d 
Defigns, it may be thought, that they might have been better reprefsnEed by 
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as 
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ginal ParticuEiarity, it is here chofc to draw them immediately from Narare. 
- Drawing from Flowers need not be loaded with mathematical Rules, jet 
there is one which we raufl: always retain, in order to draw properly ftbm 
Nature ; and chat is, Flowers arc fuj^s’d in general to be round when^fren 
in Front, and ko ‘appear oval in ProjwrtiDn, as they are more or 
from the Eye : But a Circumftance of the greateft Confequence to a 
Reprefentation of this Part of Nature, is chufing the Flower in its prop’ 
for Copying- The Gardener may admire his Flc 
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^ ^ ^ Slower when moft regtii. 
compaA, but the moft fuccefeful Painters have always chofe to rqjfdbn 
Bloffbms as ripenM to a Degree of Loofeneii^ to be folded and p 
the Wind. By taking the Liberty here recommended, the Proprie^ „< 
.Drawing will ftiU be adher’d to \ and the young Ptaclitiooer will hi 
avoid the iifelcfs Formality of flat Drawing, and ti 
Errors of an unhfc 
FkJridnels. There are indeed many curiom Plants chat t^ir 
Beauties would appear formal in Painting, and they are tbeyeforc omkttxi, 
only pccafionaliy drawn, for the Ufe of the Bctan^d, wherij 
requir'd, that the ft tidied Formality Dr; 
