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are enveloped in golden air, so that, like the roof, they fuse gently with the distance instead of cutting sharply against it, as trees in nature and in all ordinary painting have a way of doing. Even the parapet is not allowed to be a rigid barrier, but is dexterously broken, not only by the veritable opening immediately opposite the house door, but by the same dexterous softening of the tones, so that the eye is undisturbed by the appearance of a rigid line, The two little figures put close by, make all necessary amends in the matter of relief, just as the two figures of the gardeners and the wheelbarrow serve to vary the evenness of the shadowed lawn. How arbitrary Turner had already become in the treatment of light and shade will be seen

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