"When we trust to the picture, that objects draw of themselves on the mind, we deceive ourselves. Without accurate, and particular observation, it is but ill-drawn at first: the outlines are soon blurred: the colours, every day grow fainter; and at last, when we would produce it to any body, we are obliged to supply it's defects with a few strokes of our own imagination."
Three Essays
<u>Three Essays: on Picturesque Beauty; on Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape: to Which Is Added a Poem, on Landscape Painting</u>. (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004863369.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;