Description of Sixty Studies from Nature, pp.iv-v

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	preface, page v:- INTRODUCTION. THE man who would paint well, has much to learn - he has much more, however, to avoid learning. Antiquity, deeply attentive to the perfection of the human form, has bequeathed to us such combinations of beauty in her marbles, as are never to be met with in living individuals. - It might naturally be inferred that all who have an eye tolerably correct, and who place these models before them for imitation, would benefit in proportion to the time which they bestow on their study. Why is this not the fact?
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