On the Modifications of Clouds

from the Mexican Sketchbook

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Print size: 16x20 inches

Execution: 2019

"But as this experience is usually consigned only to the memory of the possessor, in a confused mass of supple aphorisms, the skill resulting from it is in a manner incommunicable; for, however valuable these links when in connexion with the rest of the Chain, they often serve, when taken singly, only to mislead; and the power of connecting them, and of forming a judgment upon occasion from them, resides only in the mind before which their relations have passed, though perhaps imperceptibly, in review."

Essay on the Modifications of Clouds by Luke Howard, F.R.S., &c. First Published 1803, Third Edition, London, John Churchill & Sons, New Burlington Street, 1865
A photograph based on the 1803 essay by Luke Howard entitled, On the Modifications of Clouds

On the Modifications of Clouds, 2019