Hired to Depress: A Digital Scholarly Edition of William Blake's Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds' DiscoursesMain MenuWho is William Blake?Just who is William Blake? And why does his scribbling in a book matter?Who is Sir Joshua Reynolds?Important FiguresTitle PageContents of The First VolumeDedication and To the KingSome Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Joshua ReynoldsWritten by Edmond Malone, Esq.The First DiscourseBibliographyElizabeth Pottera6e9fb7ea6eda3e5063e2aee73ca5f372e99b8f3
12015-12-12T23:06:42-08:00Some Account xx8Some Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynoldsplain2017-01-16T11:01:43-08:00 within his reach ; but rather employed his time in examining and fixing in his mind their peculiar and characteristick excellencies. Instead of copying the touches of the great masters, he aspired to copy their conceptions. “ From contemplating the works of Titian, Correggio, &c. (says he in another of his fragments,) we derive this great advantage; we learn that certain niceties of expression are capable of being executed, which other- wise we might consider as beyond the reach of art : this inspires us with some degree of confidence, and we are thus incited to endea- vour at other excellencies in the same line.”
Some account of his particular practice and habits of study, while he was in Italy, is, I know, much desired by several artists of the present day; but these I have no means of
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