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Claude Lorraine glass

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Claude´ Lor`raine´ glass`
1.A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.


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In the Lake District, Gray had taken a Claude Lorraine glass through which, to use Mack's words, "the various and disparate elements of the greater landscape" could be drawn into a "perceptual whole," then to be further composed through Gray's "patient, considered prose.
 
 
 
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