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 46
\ 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… … efforts of those who are either tooidle, or indifferent, to endure therestraint of study. The distortionof a head, or figure, is apparent toevery one \ but the representation of a treemay be, in every way, disproportioned and outof character, and still it is a tree, and theproducer of it at once an…
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