THE LIFE
AND
WRITINGS
OF
 HENRY FUSELI, Esq. M.A. R.A.
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 anddefining the Proportions of the HumanFrame, with Directions to the Studentin Copying the Life371
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INTRODUCTION.
It cannot be considered as superfluous or assumingto present the reader of the followinglectures with a succinct characteristic sketch ofthe principal technic instruction, ancient andmodern, which we possess: I say, a sketch, foran elaborate and methodical survey, or a planwell digested and strictly followed, would demanda volume. These observations, less writtenfor the man of letters and cultivated taste,than for the student who wishes to inform himselfof the history and progress of his art, are todirect him to the sources from which my principlesare deduced, to enable him, by comparingmy authors with myse                        
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