button to main menu  Eleventh Exhibition, p.13
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Not satisfied with what I had yet done, I retraced my former steps and added considerably to my stock of sketches, not only in the year 1802, but in several succeeding years, thereby improving my taste in execution, and my feelings in respect to combination and quantity: - some of my early sketches were considerably in detail, but others were slight, but though slight they were accurate and tolerably characteristic, considering the quantity of lines bestowed upon them: as I began to improve they were seen by various lovers of art, and purchased, and by the estimation in which they were held I was induced to redouble my attention: I had from the first of my coming into the country made many of them of the size of my five guinea finihsed (sic) drawings, but it was not till the year 1805, that I began to work upon the super royal paper, twenty-seven inches by nineteen: I then patiently investigated the materials before me and made my drawings in pencil with a corresponding anxiety, finishing as I have always done entirely on the spot.
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