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Print, aquatint, smaller animals, by William Gilpin,
1772-74, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London,
1808.
Vol.2 opposite p.255 in Observations on Several Parts of
England, Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland
Westmoreland, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, 3rd
edn 1808.
The list of plates has:-
'... XXX. / These two prints [29 and 30] illustrate the
doctrine of grouping smaller animals, as sheep, goats, and
deer. ... / If they be removed to a middle distance, as
represneted in the other of these prints, the subordinate
group is of less consequence; and still of less, the farther
it recedes from the eye. The whole is only considered as one
body, blended, as it were, and shadowed, or inlightened,
with the ground: and it is enough, if regular, and
disagreeable shapes are avoided. / Page 255.'
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