Excerpt from Modern Painters, Vol. 2: Containing Part III, Sections I and II, of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties I should not, however, insist upon the faults of this picture, believing it to be a copy, if I had ever seen, even 1l Evcntn m, in his most genuine works, an extreme dis. WW tance of Claude with any of the essential characters of nature. But although in his better pict. Ures we have always beautiful drawing of the air, which in the copy before us is entirely wanting, the real features of the extreme mountain distance are equally neglected or maligned in all. There is, indeed, air be tween us and it; but ten miles, not seventy miles of space. Let us observe a little more closely the practice of nature in such cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.