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fol. 50v	'Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution' (Pt I, Sn II, Ch II)     (3.123-24)
      
      
      
     
     
      
      
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     These six qualities are the only <ones> perfectly legitimate sources of pleasure*
     in execution  -  but I might have added a seventh, which in many cases
10   is productive of a pleasure which is not altogether mean or degrading  .
     though scarcely right ,  & that is    Strangeness .     Supposing the other
     qualities of execution first secured - it adds in no small degree to
     our impression of that artists knowledge , if the means used be such as
     we should <not> {never} have thought of - ^ {or should have thought adapted to a
     contrary effect}   Let us - for instance . compare the
15   execution of the bulls head in the left hand lowest corner of the
     Adoration of the Magi - in the Museum at Antwerp . with that of the
     ^ {white} cows head in Berghems picture .  No  .   in the Dulwich gallery .
     Rubens first scratches horizontally over his canvass a {thin} greyish brown, transparent
     & even, <t**l[?]> very much the colour of light wainscot - <and with> the horizontal
20   strokes of the bristles being left so evident that the whole looks very much
fol. 51r	'Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution' (Pt I, Sn II, Ch I)     (3.123f)
     [note: page is nearly cut through near spine towards bottom of page - where the blade ended working from further into book]
      
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     produced . the greater  ^ {as} has been already explained - will be the <idea>
     {sensation}of power
     power -   <This is a high merit of execution .>
     The <sixth> {Third} is mystery .  Nature never allows any one to see how her effects
     are produced - neither should art - which is always most like nature when
 5   it is most inexplicable  .   That execution which is the most incomprehensible .
     and which therefore defies imitation .  other qualities being supposed alike .
     is the best .*
     #86#< The seventh is Strangeness.      If an artist produces his end by a means or
     method which no one else would have thought of . and which seems
10   totally unadapted to any such end - it gives us a high idea of the knowledge
     which praceived [sic] such a result to be so attainable . <in> and therefore. A
     high pleasure .    In the magnificent melée of materials which Rubens
     has accumulated in his adoration of the   .
     Now . it is evident that all these various excellencies of execution , just
15   ennumerated, cannot be united in the same picture - or if they be - that
     none can exist in a high degree .  For instance. the seventh - strangeness -
     is inconsistent with the sixth - Mystery - for to see that the means are odd -
     you must see what they are .    Decision again - is most seen in single
     lines -  but truth - and velocity in confused and untraceable lines  .
20   for <bot> nature ^ {& swiftness} <is> always confused and untraceable.  The
     								relative quantity of  >

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