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DR. R. LIEBREICH, in a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution on Friday, the 8th inst., βOn the effects of certain faults of vision on painting, with special reference to Turner and Mulready,β successfully vindicated the title of physical science to extend its researches into the domain of art criticism by applying optical laws to painting. The lecture may be said to consist of three parts, the first of which demonstrates, by the example of Turner, that there are certain conditions of the eye which alter the appearance of nature, whilst they leave the impression a picture produces upon the eye unchanged. The second part of the lecture proves, by the example of a French artist yet living, whose name, therefore, was withheld, that there is another defect of the eye, which produces an incorrect impression of the picture as well as of nature, the error, however, being dissimilar, and affecting the picture and nature in opposite ways. The third part of the lecture shows, by the example of Mulready, that there is yet another disease of the eye affecting colours in such a manner that pigments used in painting are influenced by the disease, whilst natural colours continue unaltered.
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Dr. Liebreich on Turner and Mulready . Nature 5, 404β406 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005404a0
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