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there generally wants fome Amendment in the Whole, to make a proper Har« 
mony in a Pidture, 
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In Defigning, it is generally neceffary to contrive a Piece fo, that the Objedts 
fhall be relieved by the Ground, or relieve each other; for Example, if you have 
light or bright Objects, the Ground behind them may be a Group of dark-green 
Trees, or Shrubs, which will bring them forwards, and make them appear to Ad¬ 
vantage. If you have Objedts in your Fore-Ground, that are in the Shade, or in 
themfelves are of dark Colours, then it will be convenient to place behind them 
fome light Objedts, fuch as a clear Opening in a Landfkip, either the Earth, Hills,, 
or Sky. It is alfo often neceffary, the better to free a large Objedt from the 
Ground, to make the Ground dark on the light Side, and light on the dark 
Side of fuch Objedt or Figure ; but yet the Ground mud: be fo ftudied as to 
appear very Natural, and conceal the Artift’s Contrivance. 
In a Piece of Painting, fpecial Care fhould be taken that there be no very {harp, or 
hard Lines (as we call them) or any fudden Lights immediately bordering on dark 
Shadows, for they are difcordant in Painting : On the contrary, the Out-Lines of 
Objedts fhould be fo broken into the Grounds behind them, as not to be pre- 
cifely traced. Many great Painters, to avoid a too (hocking Glare of Colours, have 
broke the Colours of their Draperies, as well as other Objedts, into one another,, 
for they are really fo in Nature: For Example, expofe a red and a blue Sattin in 
a good Light near each other, and they fhall both appear Purple, in thofe Parts of 
each of them which diredtly receive the Reflection of the other: The fame is to 
be obferved of other Colours, fo that many Painters have harmonized all their 
Colours, by never introducing a diredt Red, Blue, Yellow, or hardly any other 
gay Colour, without fome little Mixture or Allay. 
I fhall proceed to fpeak of Wafhing, or Staining in Colours, either of Drawings or 
Prints, by way of Hint to private Perfons, who like to amufe themfelves in 
that Way, rather than to Artifans.—And firft, of the common Way, pradtifed by the 
Print-Shops about Town, in their Views of Palaces, Gardens, Figures, and all 
other Pictures for common Sale. Thefe are to be confidered as cheap Things, 
done with much Expedition, and with little Study, as to Propriety in Colouring j 
for fuch is the Judgment of the Bulk of the People, that the more glaring they 
are in their Colouring, and the more diftant from Nature, the more they are 
prized. Thefe common Wafhers generally mix a little White in their Skies 
and Diftances in Colouring of Prints, becaufe it takes off the Harfhnefs of an ordi¬ 
nary Print, as mod; of them are that are fold coloured. 
A fne Print, coloured by a -judicious Artift, might be made almod: equal ill 
Value to an original 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 fird: be drawn in Cut-Lines, and then you may proceed to finidi it with 
different Colours in its different Parts, as the Nature of the Thing requires, be¬ 
ginning to wadi with Water thinly tindtured with Colour, at firfb, and gradu- 
