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Latrobe's Essay on Landscape, vol. 1, View of the Coast of England in Hastings

Benjamin Henry Latrobe1798/1799

Library of Virginia

Library of Virginia
Richmond, VA, United States

In this scene, Latrobe demonstrates the effect of "keeping" - placing and coloring the different objects in a scene that convinces the eye that they are at the proper distances from each other. In this case, it is done by the gradual reduction in the height of the cliff, and in shadows and brightness in coloring.

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