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fol. 58r    [fol. 57v is blank] 		'Of Truth of Tone' (Pt II, Sn II, Ch  I)    (3.271?)
      
      
      
     variation of tone in their colouring must be fatal , because false .
     <Such errors are not uncommon . even>   (Note here .  Rubens at Antwerp ).
     But wherever we have to deal with vastness of space & object -
     wherever we have height - or depth - or distance - there we can have
 5   change of climate - there nature has change of climate - even in
     her moments of most perfect repose .   At sunset - there is one {tone, caused by the}
     cool mist
     on the level country - another by . the {hot} red , <hot> light of the descending
     sun on the higher objects - and a third of purer . untainted - atmospheric
     radiance . pente{t}rating [sic] the thin upper air to the clouds & hills  .  It
10   is possible to unite all these by such harmony of gradation - and to
     make them so melt into and illustrate one another - as in no whit to
     destroy the universal repose of the picture -  and it is possible to lose &
     forget all these in one warm brown blaze - which may indeed please -
     and continue to please - by its brilliancy . simplicity . & repose - but which
15   may be so far from truth as rather to represent what would be the
     result of a colossal candle stuck into the centre of the objects composing
     the landscape .  than of th<ose>{e} distant <and infinitely vast> source of
     <light - which <per> feeds> whose rays are modified in every conceivable
     way by change of atmosphere & climate - before they illumine the objects
20   immediately seen .      I do not say that there is never such simplicity as
     this in nature - there is sometimes on serene days a blaze of light which
     turns everything yellow . to the very mist - and swallows up all climate in
      

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