…--- a view may include any number of interesting facts, may constitute a whole catalog of important and pretty items, and so be valuable as a view o… - Alfred Horsley Hinton

...but record and recognition are not pictorial qualities.

…the strongest part of a picture is the sensation and the feeling which it creates, this being done through the agency of certain familiar objects more or less accurately depicted and represented with more or less completeness.
The MOTIVE, then, in all pictorial work is to convey some thought or idea or sensation by means of a chosen subject.

...strictly speaking, tone is the relative lightness and darkness due to the effect of light governed by atmosphere, and has nothing to do with the relative lightness and darkness or relative value with which various colours appear when compared with each other.