A Course of Lectures on Drawing, Painting, and Engraving, Considered as Branches of Elegant Education

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Excerpt from A Course of Lectures on Drawing, Painting, and Engraving, Considered as Branches of Elegant Education: Delivered in the Saloon of the Royal Institution, in Successive Seasons, and Read Subsequently at the Russell Institution These considerations led me to under take reading a course of lectures at the Royal Institution, as was suggested to me by a distinguished nobleman, then one of the committee of managers. The suc cess which appeared to attend my endea vour in nine following seasons of that es tablishment, induced me to extend the same benefit to all who may wish for it by a printed publication of those lectures. If I Should be 'regarded by some as the advocate of a mode, respecting which there are con¿icting Opinions, I beg to say, that I have not become so, without first giving a most serious and devoted attention to the subject, nor without of fering indisputable facts and demonstra tions, as to the truth of what I have thought it my duty to assert. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.