on safe grounds for every subject. The application requires, it is true, infinite modifications, which can only succeed in the hands of genius.
GENUINE TONE.
889.
If the word tone, or rather tune, is to be still borrowed in future from music, and applied to colouring, it might be used in a better sense than heretofore.
890.
For it would not be unreasonable to compare a painting of powerful effect, with a piece of music in a sharp key; a painting of soft effect with a piece of music in a flat key, while other equivalents might be found for the modifications of these two leading modes.
FALSE TONE.
891.
The word tone has been hitherto understood to mean a veil of a particular colour spread over the whole picture; it