m. 380
Sec. 39. Turner's noblest work, the painting of the deep open sea in
the Slave Ship. 382
Sec. 40. Its united excellences and perfection as a whole. 383

SECTION VI.

OF TRUTH OF VEGETATION.--CONCLUSION.

CHAPTER I.--Of Truth of Vegetation.

Sec. 1. Frequent occurrence of foliage in the works of the old
masters. 384
Sec. 2. Laws common to all forest trees. Their branches do not taper,
but only divide. 385
Sec. 3. Appearance of tapering caused by frequent buds. 385
Sec. 4. And care of nature to conceal the parallelism. 386
Sec. 5. The degree of tapering which may be represented as continuous. 386
Sec. 6. The trees of Gaspar Poussin. 386
Sec. 7. And of the Italian school generally, defy this law. 387
Sec. 8. The truth, as it is given by J. D. Harding. 387
Sec. 9. Boughs, in consequence of this law, _must_ diminish where they
divide. Those of the old masters often do not. 388
Sec. 10. Boughs must multiply as they diminish. Those of the old
masters do not. 389
Sec. 11. Bough-drawing of Salvator. 390
Sec. 12. All these errors especially shown in Claude's sketches, and
concentrated in a work of G. Poussin's. 391
Sec. 13. Impossibility of the angles of boughs being taken out of them
by wind. 392
Sec. 14. Bough-drawing of Titian. 392
Sec. 15. Bough-drawing of Turner. 394
Sec. 16. Leafage. Its variety and symmetry. 394
Sec. 17. Perfect regularity of Poussin. 395
Sec. 18. Exceeding intricacy of nature's foliage. 396
Sec. 19. How contradicted by the tree-patterns of G. Poussin. 396
Sec. 20. How followed by Creswick. 397
Sec. 21. Perfect unity in nature's foliage. 398
Sec. 22. To