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Art/Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Andrew Forge
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Extract

Eighteenth-century country gentlemen would carry small amber-coloured reducing lenses on their evening walks, and with their help they would transport themselves from Derbyshire or Kent into the Roman campagna or into the ideal campagna they had learnt from the paintings of Claude or Gaspard Poussin.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 6: Philosophy and The Arts , March 1972 , pp. 228 - 241
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1972

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