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investigating. The method which he fol-
lowed when he was at Venice, in order to
ascertain the principles on which the great
masters of colouring wrought, and to attain
the true management of light and shade, he
has himself particularly mentioned in a note
on Du Fresnoy’s Poem . 15
While he was in Italy, he occasionally in-
dulged himself in Caricatura, which was
much in vogue at that time. Of pieces of this
description, the only one which I have seen
of his hand, is a large picture , 14 containing
about twenty figures, being all the English
gentlemen of note who were then at Rome.
This caricatura, however, was not like the
more modern productions in that style, being
done with the consent of the gentlemen re-
presented. It was a kind of picturesque
travesty of Raffaelle's School of Athens.