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" Certainly, if the sky is obtrusive, as mine are, it is bad; but if it is evaded, as mine are not, it is worse; it must and always shall with me make an effectual part of the composition. It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky... "
Hand-book for Young Painters - Page 259
by Charles Robert Leslie - 1870 - 315 pages
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 608 pages
...composition. It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment....sky is the source of light in nature, and governs every thing ; even our common observations on the weather of every day are altogether suggested by...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 644 pages
...composition. It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment....what a ' white sheet' would do for me, impressed as 1 am with these notions, and they cannot be erroneous. The sky is the source of light in nature, and...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 606 pages
...composition. It will bo difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment. You may conceive thon, what a ' white sheet ' would do for me, impressed as I am with these notions, and they cannot...
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Gainsborough

George Moss Brock-Arnold - 1881 - 188 pages
...composition. It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key-note. . . . The sky is the source of light in nature, and governs everything. . . . My skies have not been neglected though they have often failed in execution, no doubt, from an...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - 1883 - 624 pages
...composition. It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment....sky is the source of light in nature, and governs every thing; even our common observations on the weather of every day are altogether suggested by it....
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - 1893 - 630 pages
...composition. It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment....with these notions, and they cannot be erroneous. The «ky is the source of light in nature, and governs every thing ; even our common observations on the...
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The American Annual of Photography, Volume 25

1911 - 410 pages
...landscape in which the sky is not the keynote, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment. Yon may conceive, then, what a 'white sheet' would do...everything: even our common observations on the weather are altogether suggested by it. The difficulty of skies in painting is very great, both as to composition...
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The Great Painters in Relation to the European Tradition

Edith R. Abbot - 1927 - 610 pages
...master. The sky "must, and always shall with me, make an effectual part of the composition," he said. "The sky is the source of light in nature and governs everything." Passing storm effects are studied in these sketches. Over Hampstead Heath, the sun breaks in a frightened...
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Convention and Revolt in the Treatment of Landscape in the Early Nineteenth ...

Evelyn Mitchell Howe - 1946 - 586 pages
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