Gilpin 1786

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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.'
	source type:-	Gilpin 1786 (3rd edn 1808)

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