ng of the day-star.

FOOTNOTES

[58] I have cut out a passage in this place which insisted on the
_angular_ character of rocks,--not because it was false, but because
it was incomplete, and I cannot explain it nor complete it without
example. It is not the absence of curves, but the suggestion of
_hardness through_ curves, and of the under tendencies of the inward
structure, which form the true characteristics of rock form; and
Salvator, whom neither here nor elsewhere I have abused enough, is
not wrong because he paints curved rocks, but because his curves are
the curves of ribbons and not of rocks; and the difference between
rock curvature and other curvature I cannot explain verbally, but I
hope to do it hereafter by illustration; and, at present, let the
reader study the rock-drawing of the Mont St. Gothard subject, in
the Liber Studiorum, and compare it with any examples of Salvator to
which he may happen to have access. All the account of rocks here
given is altogether inadequate, and I only do not alter it because I
first wish to give longer study to the subject.

[59] A passage which I happened to see in an Essay of Mr. Pyne's, in
the Art-Union, about nature's "foisting rubbish" upon the artist,
sufficiently explains the cause of this decline. If Mr. Pyne will go
to nature, as all great men have done, and as all men who mean to be
great must do, that is not merely to be _helped_, but to be _taught_
by her; and will once or twice take her gifts, without looking them
in the mouth, he will most assuredly find--and I say this in no
unkind or depreciatory feeling, for I should say the same of all
artists who are in the habit of only sketching nature, and not
studying her--that _her_ worst is better than _his_ best. I am quite
sure that if Mr. Pyne, or any other painter who has hitherto been
very careful in his choice of subject, will go into the next
turnpike-road, and taking the first four trees that he comes to in
the hedge, give them a day each, drawing them leaf for leaf, as far
as may be, and even their smallest boughs with as much care as if
they were rivers, or an important map of a newly-surveyed country,
he will find, when he has brought them all home, that at least three
out of the four are better than the best he ever invented. Compare
Part III. Sect. I. Chap. III. Sec