button to main menu  Eleventh Exhibition, p.16
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at last determined to seclude myself among the mountains, hoping that by a due attention to the object of my choice, I might not only serve the arts, but eventually benefit my family.
My first proposals for publication were issued in 1807 and this was for the large work, five numbers of which appeared the following year, two numbers in 1809, and it was finally completed by the delivery of the three last numbers in 1810.
On sight of the first five numbers in 1808, my friends suggested that a series of introductory etchings, upon a small scale, would be more useful to beginners than the large ones, and the set of seventy-eight outlines was accordingly published in 1809.
It was my idea originally to begin with the small outlines, but in the opinion of others, it was thought that the large ones, by their magnitude and consequence, would be more likely to command public attention than the small ones.
The subjects composing these publications are of almost every variety, furnished
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