1. Date, time of day, temperature, direction and force of wind.
2. Roughly, by compass, the direction in which you are looking; and angle of the light with respect to it.
3. Angle subtended by picture, and distance of nearest object in it.
[4] From a "Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan" ... engraved from designs by J. Lory of NeufchÂtel. London: Published by R. Ackermann, at his Repository of Arts, 1820.