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but an attempt to delineate the probable or possible situation of the char. & circumstance & to compensate, for want of certainty, the artful ?, richness of coloring, force or harmony ? & and shade, & expression of countenance and ?

[Whole side of page illegible] Sorry I couldn't read the MS [[here?]] statement is significant
[Quotes Eng writer - hist. pntg good; portr. are best [also illegible]

I cannot conclude better than by quoting an Am. poet, Mr. Wetmore, on pntg. 6 stanzas

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"Notes. Not to make the lecture too long [!] for delivery, the following passages were taken out & subjoined in the form of notes."

- "The pntrs proper language flows from his pencil..."
- need for art libraries like those in acad. Phila & Ath. in Boston
- Sculpture & pntg (again)
- Casts - tells how to make them
- Canova & Thorwaldson [[Thorvaldsen]] - anecdotes

"What I have said relates to pntg as it is understood in its most complete combinations, but it is art which consists of several distinct departments and whilst forms of