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 58
must be thus that excellence in art is to be wooed and won. It isthis that must be cultivated, and kept alive for ever, in its pursuit: and it can be done — nay,more—even where its existence may appear to be doubtful, and almost hopeless, it may bedeveloped by proper culture. It is an attribute… … >*S: 116. In concluding the elementary portion of this work, it is hoped that the effort to placebefore the American public a popular system of instruction in the first principles of design, howeverincomplete it may be, may have a tendency, not only to awaken an interest in the subject, but…
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