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" They change the form according to their vague and uncertain ideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. "
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 204
1800
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 40

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1769 - 638 pages
...education purfued in all the academies I have ever vifited. 1 mean, that the Undents never draw exadlly from the living models which they have before them....and uncertain ideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the...
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Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by the President

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 360 pages
...purfued in all the Academies I have ever vifited. The error I mean is, that the Students never draw exactly from the living models which they have before...and uncertain ideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it apC 3 pears. pears. I have thought...
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Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 pages
...before them! It rs not indeed their intention ; nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings refemble the model only in the attitude. They change .the form...and' uncertain ideas of beauty, and 'make. a' drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it-apC 3 pears. pears. I have thought...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 12

1800 - 580 pages
...before them. It is not indeed their intention, nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings retemblé the model only in the attitude. They change the form according to their vague and uncertain idea* of beauty, and make a , drawingdrawing rather of what they thin!c the figure ought to be, than...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...before them. It is not indeed their intention ; nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings resemble the model only in the attitude. They change the form...and uncertain ideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the...
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The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 pages
...before them. It is not indeed their intention ; nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings resemble the model only in the attitude. They change the form according to their vague and uncertain ideas 6f beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears....
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The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kt. Late President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pages
...before them. It is not indeed their intention ; nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings resemble the model only in the attitude. They change the form...and uncertain ideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the...
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The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ...: Containing His ..., Volume 1

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...before them. It is not indeed their intention ; nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings resemble the model only in the attitude. They change the form...and uncertain ideas of beauty, and" make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the...
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The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...before them. It is not indeed their intention ; nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings resemble the model only in the attitude. They change the form...and uncertain ideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the...
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The complete works of sir Joshua Reynolds, with an orig. memoir and ...

sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...before them. It is not indeed their intention ; nor are they directed to do it. Their drawings resemble the model only in the attitude. They change the form...and uncertain ideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the...
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