Excerpt from The Works of Jonathan Richardson: Containing: I. The Theory of Painting, II. Essay on the Art of Criticism, (So Far It Relates to Painting), III. The Science of a Connoisseur

And thus Painting not only ihews us how things appear, but tells us what they are. We are informed of countries, habits, man' ners, arms, buildings civil and military, animals, plants, minerals, their natures and properties, and in fine, of all kinds of bodies whatfoever.

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