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fol. 78v  		'Of Truth of Space … Power of the Eye' (Pt II, Sn II, Ch V)    (3.3    )
      
      
      
      
     
      
      
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15   Which <is> {are} the most important truths - the deceptive tone which the old*
     masters exclusively aims at -  or the space - aerial pers<*..*>pective - & fidelity of
     detail . which <they> we now see - they sacrificed to their juggling.   Which
     for instance, is *
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fol. 79r    	'Of Truth of Space … Power of the Eye' (Pt II, Sn II, Ch V)    (3.338)  *
      
      
      
     
     a beauty only to be imitated by the mystery - yet infinity - of execution
     which Turner only has conceived.
     Now . if the reader will only do as I tell him - to prove all I have
     said by close and unbiased observation of Nature & her imitators
 5   I have said enough to prove beyond dispute - the superiority <in> of
     Turner in this particular - to every landscape painter who ever
     lived   <The limit was    In the course of my work .  I shall have
     reason to speak particularly of the *…* all - but I have only
     to say at present - that> I mean none - ancient or modern - to
10   be excepted - <and that> whoever will take up any picture whatsoever
     of any of them - and compare it with any <picture> of Turners ,
     will be struck on the instant, and more and more impressed the
     longer he looks - with the total absence ^ * of all that mystery & intricacy
     (in the one , and the constant presence <of it> in the other , ) <l> through
15   which Nature invariably developes herself .
     <Now>  <We have> {Let me} finally <to> ask . ^ *  < *Which is the most
     							                     important <of these>
     truths - tone or intricacy - of which one we see -  is possessed by
     The old masters ^ {only} in a greater degree than by Turner - the other is
     exclusively & totally Turners *…..*   .     Or in other words . which is >
20   the most important truth - in giving me a conception of St Marks
     at Venice - that it should have exactly the <tone &> relief against
     the sky - which it shares with every hovel & brick kiln in Italy -
      
      

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