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\ AT ESSRS. Boydell are going on with 
es their publication of Earlom’s Co- 
pies from tle Drawings of Claude Lor- 
roi, and No. 2 of Liber Veritates is 
aor ready for delivery, at 11. tis. 6d.— 
The great artift from whom thefe admir- 
able engravings are copied, is well known 
throughout Europe, and in this country 
his pure and perfect pictures are deferved- 
ly held in the higheft eftimation, and put 
in the very fir clafs. Ia order to avoid 
a repetition of the fame fubjeét, and alfo 
to dete& fuch works as m'ght be impro- 
perly afciibed to him, it was bis cultom 
to draw ina proper book the defigns of 
all thofe pictures which were tracfmitred 
to different countries, and mark on tie 
back of each the names of thofe to wnom 
he had fold them. One of thefe books, 
entitled Zzbro di Verita, is in the pot- 
fefiion of the Duke of Devonfhire ; and 
_ the engravings from thefe are well known, 
and in deflerved popularity. To this 
practice muft be afcribed the inconceiv- 
able ‘variety difplayed in fuch a number 
of landfcapes ; and their unrivalled ex- 
cellence muft be attributed to the painter 
having taken nature for his guide, and 
almoft invariably made his fludies in the 
open air, for he frequently continued in 
the fields from fun-rile to fun-fet, when 
the duik of the evening compelled him to 
return home. It was his cultom to {ketch 
whatever he thought moft beautiful or 
ftriking ; and every curious tinge of light 
on all kiads of objects, he marked in his 
iketches with a fimilar colour, from which 
he perfected his. land{capes with fuch 
truth and refemblance to nature, as fur- 
paffes every other artift in that ftyle. 
From this inceflant fudy, Sandrart relates, 
that Claude ufed to explain to him, as 
they walked through the fields, the caufe 
of the different appearances of the fame 
profpect- at different hours of the day, 
from the reflections or refractions of light 
from dews or vapours in the evening or 
morning, wiih all the precifion of a phi- 
lofopher, | 
His fkies are warm and full of luftre, 
and every object is properly illaminated, 
His dittances are admirable, and in every 
part a delightful union and harmony net 
only excite our applaufe but admiration. 
His invention ts pleafine; his colours dea 
jicate; and his tints pave an: agreeabie 
fweetne(s andevariety, that has been often 
imiteged, but never equalled. He fre- 
Guently gave fingular tendernefs to his 
Grifhes trees by glazing ; and in his Jarge 
cOmpolitions, which he painted in fretco, 
was fo exaSt, that the different fpecies of 
each may be inftantly diftinguifhed. — 
His land{capes beam with poetic ideas ; 
and the figures with which. ke peopled 
them, accord with the fceenery, but un- 
fortunately are not drawn fo correétly as 
the other parts of the picture. It is cue. 
rious to contempla‘e the different eye with 
which diferent artitts have viewed nature. 
x 2 Salvator, 
