AUTHOR OF FUGITIVE SKETCHES IN ROME, VENICE, ETC.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET,
FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
CHARLES SMITH, 34, MARYLEBONE STREET, PICCADILLY.
M.DCCC.XLII.
Entered at Stationers' Hall.
PREFACE.
Between those works on Art which are too costly, or too old to be useful now,—those, which are too comprehensive or prolix—and those, which teach nothing,—it was suggested to the Author, that an investigation and simple arrangement of the Principles on which he has hitherto successfully taught, with useful results, would form a Practical Treatise, calculated to abridge the labours and shorten the road of the Student, by its available suggestions.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| Prefatory Remarks;—Composition, applied to Painting | [1] |
| Of Angular Composition | [9] |
| Of the Circular Form in Composition | [12] |
| Light and Shade—its Application to Painting | [15] |
| On Colour | [30] |
| Of the Three Primitive Colours | [33] |
| On General Nature | [39] |
| On Rules | [45] |
| On Copying | [47] |
| On the Light and Shade of Colour; and Reflexes | [52] |
| Harmony and Contrast | [61] |
| Effect, Accident, Relief, and Keeping | [63] |
| Dexterity and Affectation | [68] |
| Of Backgrounds | [70] |
| On Water-Colour | [73] |
| Of Tints | [75] |
| Reference to the Plates on Colour | [76] |
| Description of the Plates | [78] |