THE WORKS OF SÍR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, KNIGHT; LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY: CONTAINING HIS DISCOURSES, IDLERS, A JOURNEY TO FLANDERS AND HOLLAND, AND HIS COMMENTARY ON DU FRESNOY'S ART OF PAINTING; PRINTED FROM HIS REVISED COPIES, (WITH HIS LAST CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS) IN THREE VOLUMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE BY EDMOND MALONE, ESQ. ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS. THE THIRD EDITION CORRECTED. -QUASI NON EA PRÆCIPIAM ALIIS, QUE MIHI IPSI DESUnt. CICERO. VOLUME THE SECOND. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND, By H. Baldwin and Son, New Bridge-Street. CONTENTS Sculpture. Has but one style. Its objects, form, and character. Ineffectual attempts of the modern Sculptors to improve the art. Ill effects of modern dress in Sculpture p. 9 Particular methods of study of little consequence.- Little of the art can be taught.-Love of method often a love of idleness. Pittori improvvisatori apt to be careless and incorrect; seldom original and |