Conception any more than the Engravings of Strange Bartollozzi or W oollett. They

are Works of Manual Labour>

[P 23] MUCH COPYING DISCOUNTENANCED. . . ARTISTS. . .SHOULD BE EMPLOYD

IN LAYING UP MATERIALS. . . .

[P 25] . . . once enabled to express himself. . . he must. . . amass a stock of ideas. . . . he is now

to consider the Art itself as his master.

After having been a Fool a Student is to amass a Stock of Ideas & [then to be insolent

in his Foolery] himself to be a Fool he is to assume the Right to put other

Mens Ideas into his Foolery>

[P 26]. . . he must still be afraid of trusting his own judgment, and of deviating into any track

where he cannot find the footsteps of some former master.

Instead of Following One Great Master he is to follow a Great Many Fools

[P 28] A Student unacquainted with the attempts [P 29] of former adventurers, is always apt to

over-rate his own abilities; to mistake. . . every coast new to him, for a new-found country.

[P 29] The productions of such minds. . . . differ. . . from their predecessors. . . only in irregular

sallies, and trifling conceits.

better than Colouring without any meaning at all>

[P 30] On whom then can [the student] rely. . . ? . . . those great masters who have travelled the

same road with success. . . .

[This is Encouragement for Artists. . . (about 4 illegible words) . . . to those who are

born for it]

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[P 32] How incapable those. . . who have spent much of their time in making finished copies. . .

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