Hints for Composition by Varley - 1805
- Creation Date
- 1805
- Type
- watercolors (paintings)
- Medium
- Gray wash, with pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige, wove paper
- Materials
- brown ink
gray wash
pen
wove paper - Inscription
- Inscribed in pen and brown ink, entire page: "Warm Grey' made of Lake Gamboge & Indigo. Cold Grey' of Indigo | and Light Red v. As when the foreground is warm make the sky cold.. v. | 3 1 2 | Hints for Composition by J. Varley - 1805. | The Same principle may apply to a dark object - placing lights | on one the side (or above) & half teint on the other (or below) as observe | No.3 where there is a light object adapted to that principle | and a dark one with the same | Don't bury the foreground dark against the margin but | soften it as in No. 6 if it is dark across the middle make the | foreground light. Never place an equal spot of shadow on both | sides or above & below a light object- if it is half tient on | one side let it be dark on the other. | When there is light across the mimddle of the | picture (as hills above in half teint) the foreground should be | shade | The old fashioned foreground is [...] & is new | imphatically called the [...] as those who | can only compose i
- Subject
- genre subject
- Dimensions
- Height: 26.4 centimeters
Width: 21.0 centimeters
- Accession #
- B1981.25.2743
- Object #
- 19984
- Credit Line
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Object Rights
- Public Domain
- Partner URL
- http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3650245
- Linked Data URI
- ycba:object/19984
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