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 45
, and fertile imagination, of the artist have detected, and his ready handdeveloped with a fey touches, that defy imitation. Often, in sketches, the artist may appear tohave dashed forth, in bold explorations, in search of happy combinations of line, effect, andexpression, upon which the beginner… … \ 106. While on the subject of manner, it may be expected that something should be saidwith reference to trees and foliage ; but all the rules and recipes, that ever were promulgated, cannot teach one to draw the most simple weed, without a feeling and capacity for the imitationof form. Landscape…
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