Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy
Feeling. Under a drawing in perspective, still extant, of a wall pierced by a window, made on the back of a Latin exercise, Samuel Reynolds has written, This is drawn by Joshua in school out Of pure idleness. But it gradually dawned upon the good dominie that pure idleness was an insufficient explanation, and to a later drawing, in which, with the help of the Jesuit's Perspective, Joshua wrestled successfully with the difficulties of the colonnade.
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