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fol. 20r    [fol. 19v, NG letter]      'Of Ideas of Truth … Beauty and Relation' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch I) (3.133/680-81)
      
      
      
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     Of the purely imitative aim and manner .  we may adduce as examples
     the pot and kettle part of the Dutch school -  the minute labour
     of Gerard Dow and Ostade .  to reach the perfect lustre of brass pans
     and particular scarlet of ripe carrots - the <days> inconceivable 		
 5   consumption of sight and time upon the chiselling - (not ^ {merely} the decoration
     but {even} the rough .^ {traces of the} stonemasons mallet). in the stone tablets ^ {with which they}
     <often> support the elbows of their Dutch beauties -   and, in higher art.
     the laboured tears of Carlo Dolci’s <Madonnas> {Mater D.s} - the rustling
     damasks of Paul Veronese - the separate hairs and glancing
10   Jewels [sic] of some of the heads of Rembrandt -  and - <to the shame>
     last - but not least -   certain hats and sticks - kid gloves &
     satin slippers .  on which our own Landseer has lately spent
     as much labour as <would have dashed a herd of red deer into
     bounding life - applied>  had it been applied - as it is in the
15   Old shepherds chief mourner -  might have touched the hearts
     of half the world .
     In all these cases .  be it observed .it is not <the object> {his subject} which the
     artist wishes to display -  his only endeavour to please is by the
     manifestation of his own power of simple imitation. .     We are not
20   intended to do obeisance to raw carrots -  nor to be overpowered with
     a sense of sublimity <in> {by} the ^ {extended} orbit of a frying pan - <sh> nor had Landseer any tyrannical or ^ {and worse than} Gessler-like intention of making the world
      

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