< A Treatise on Painting
Chap. CCCXXXIX.—Of the Horizon seen in the Water.
By the sixth proposition[1], the horizon will be seen in the water as in a looking-glass, on that side which is opposite the eye. And if the painter has to represent a spot covered with water, let him remember that the colour of it cannot be either lighter or darker than that of the neighbouring objects.
- ↑ This was probably to have been a part of some other work, but it does not occur in this.
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