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 40
n, mayrest assured that this commonplace instrument can do him more good service than any other.The precision and facility of hand and certainty of touch that he will acquire by its early andsingle use will enable him to wield the crayon or the brush, the graver or the modelling tool, thechisel or… … make it firm and well-trained; and nerved to its use, he will possess an unlimited command of allother instruments. The pen admits of no indecision. We are compelled to consider well what isto be done, and then to do it with an unerring line or touch — and a failure can only be remediedby retracing…
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