Excerpt from De Arte Graphica: The Art of Painting by C. A. Du Fresnoy;, With Remarks, Translated Into English, Together With an Original Preface Containing a Parallel Betwixt Painting and Poetry, as Also a Short Account of the Most Eminent Painters, Both Ancient and Modern, Contine'd
It may be reasonably expected, that I shou'd say something on my own behalf, in respect to my present Undertaking. First, then, the Reader may be pleas'd to know, that it was not of my own choice that I undertook this Work.
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