A

TREATISE ON ART

IN THREE PARTS

CONSISTING OF

ESSAYS ON THE EDUCATION OF THE EYE,
PRACTICAL HINTS ON COMPOSITION,
AND LIGHT AND SHADE

BY JOHN BURNET, F. R. S.

THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTO-ENGRAVINGS FROM THE ORIGINAL ETCHINGS
OF CELEBRATED PICTURES

From the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, Dutch and English Schools.

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PHILADELPHIA

AN ESSAY

ON

THE EDUCATION OF THE EYE

ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTO ENGRAVINGS

AND ETCHINGS

BY JOHN BURNET, F. R. S.

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Visual impressions are those which in infancy furnish the principal means of developing the powers of
the understanding; it is to this class of principals that the philosopher resorts for the most apt and
perspicuous illustrations of his reasoning, and it is also from the same inexhaustible fountain that the poet
draws his most pleasing and graphic as well as his sublimest imagery."

DR. ROGET'S BRIDGEWATER TREATISE.

PHILADELPHIA

FRANK V. CHAMBERS, PUBLISHER