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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 44

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t^SSm drawing and a sketch arc two different things. Although one must learn to draw, before hecan sketch, the capacity for one is dependent upon the other. MANNER OR METHOD. 97 … 104. What can a beginner learn, by the imitation of such a sketch as the following ? —and yet, it is a fac-simile, the size of the original, of Wilkies first sketchor idea, of his picture of the Rabbit on the Wall. To the eyeand understanding of the artist, every line may have had pur-pose and…

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