X is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, these were used by artists, travellers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting.The mirror is named for a 17th-century landscape painter, whose name in the late 18th century became synonymous with the picturesque aesthetic. These were famously used by picturesque artists in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a frame for drawing sketches of picturesque landscapes.The user would turn his back on the scene to observe the framed view through the tinted mirror—in a sort of pre-photographic lens—which added the picturesque aesthetic of a subtle gradation of tones. What mirror?
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53. Tinted mirror...
X is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, these were used by artists, travellers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting.The mirror is named for a 17th-century landscape painter, whose name in the late 18th century became synonymous with the picturesque aesthetic. These were famously used by picturesque artists in England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a frame for drawing sketches of picturesque landscapes.The user would turn his back on the scene to observe the framed view through the tinted mirror—in a sort of pre-photographic lens—which added the picturesque aesthetic of a subtle gradation of tones. What mirror?
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