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" ... which can only be obtained by a most judicious selection of particular tints, and a skilful arrangement and application of them to difference in time, seasons, and situations. This is the grand principle upon which pictorial excellence hinges, as... "
Memoir of the Life of David Cox: Member of the Society of Painters in Water ... - Page 54
by Nathaniel Neal Solly - 1873 - 339 pages
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Somerset House Gazette and Literary Museum, Or, Weekly Miscellany of Fine ...

1824 - 436 pages
...pictorial excellence hinges HS many pleasing objects, the combination of which render a piece perfect, ore frequently passed over by an observer because the whole of the composition is not under the Influ cnce of a suitable effect. Thus, a cottage or ai :.:. . i scene requires a soft and simple admixture...
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A Biography of David Cox: With Remarks on His Works and Genius

William Hall - 1881 - 300 pages
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A biography of David Cox: with remarks on his works and genius ..., Issue 367

William Hall - 1881 - 306 pages
...one more accustomed to literary composition : — The principal art of landscape painting consists in conveying to the mind the most forcible effect which...Thus a cottage or a village scene requires a soft or a simple admixture of tones, calculated to produce pleasure without astonishment. On the contrary,...
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A Treatise on Landscape Painting in Water Colours

David Cox - 1922 - 190 pages
...principle on which pictorial excellence hinges ; as many pleasing objects, the combination of which renders a piece perfect, are frequently passed over by an...calculated to produce pleasure without astonishment ; awakening all the delightful sensations of the bosom, without trenching on the nobler provinces of...
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