The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction (1847)
Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889 · New York : J.S. Redfield · leaf 25
nothing else of me.—Giotto went to Rome . This artist, who stood so high in his day, whoseworks are so justly admired, who rose to the esteemand friendship of the greatest men of the age inwhich he lived, whom Dante and Petrarch wereproud to own as a friend, to whose memory, whendead, the city of… … 25. Fathers and Teachers — call not your boys idle fellows, when you find them drawing inthe sand. Give them chalk and pencil — let them be instructed in design. But, you say, Ido not want my boy to become an artist. Depend upon it, he will plough a straightcr furrow,and build a neater and better…
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