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

Principal end of the -'art 5 but 'they are beauties. Of an inferior kind, even when fo. Employed they are the mechanical parts of painting, and requireno more, genius, or capacity, , than is necefi'ary to, and frequently feen in ordinary work men, and a picture, in this refpe'ct, is as, a {huff-box, a fan, or any other toy thefe properties are, in paining, as lan guage, rhime, and numbers are in poe try: and as he that Props at thefe, as at what confiitute the excellence of a poem is a bad he is an ill connoiffeur who has the fame confideration for thefe.

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