5. And the test of utmost fineness in execution in these arts, is that they make themselves be forgotten in what they represent; and so fulfil the words of their greatest Master,
"The best, in this kind, are but shadows."
FOOTNOTES:
[123] See date of delivery of Lecture. The picture was of a peasant girl of eleven or twelve years old, peeling carrots by a cottage fire.
[124] In Durer's "Melencholia."
[125] Turner's, in the Hakewill series.