text:  I do not mean to assert that there is any reason whatsoever for _bad_ drawing (though in landscape it matters exceedingly little;) but there is both reason and necessity for that want of drawing which gives even the nearest figures round balls with four pink spots in them instead of faces and four dashes of the brush instead of hands and feet; for it is totally impossible that if the eye be adapted to receive the rays proceeding from the utmost distance and some partial impression from all the distances it should be capable of perceiving more of the forms and features of near figures than Turner gives