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FOOTNOTES:
[1] For the reason stated in my preface, I have not thought it
expedient to publish my lectures on the great masters of the
fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
[2] These uncouth attitudes are faithful reproductions of Nos. 1 and 7
of the instantaneous photographic series.
[3] The old masters used terra verte for this preparatory modelling;
but modern terra verte will not withstand the action of the lime,
so it is necessary to compound a substitute, and the above mixture
answers very well.
[4] Taken from the “Acouchement de la Reine” (one of the “Medici”
series) by Rubens.
[5] All these diagrams illustrate a faulty arrangement.