HENRY FUSELI, Esq. M.A. R.A.
Reading edition
KEEPER, AND PROFESSOR OF PAINTING TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY IN LONDON; MEMBER OF THE FIRST CLASS OF THE ACADEMY OF ST. LUKE AT ROME.
THE FORMER WRITTEN, AND THE LATTER EDITED BY
JOHN KNOWLES, F.R.S.
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AT ROTTERDAM,
HIS EXECUTOR.
"Animo vidit, ingenio complexus est, eloquentiâ illuminavit."
Velleius Paterculus in Ciceronem.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
MDCCCXXXI.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
LECTURES.
I.Ancient ArtPage 17
II.Art of the Moderns73
III.Invention.—Part I.131
IV.Invention.—Part II.187
V.Composition, Expression237
VI.Chiaroscuro273
VII.On Design303
VIII.Colour.—In Fresco Painting329
IX.Colour.—Oil Painting353
X.The Method of fixing a Standard and defining the Proportions of the Human Frame, with Directions to the Student in Copying the Life371