an that original. Egyptian decorators often made useof this process for the transference of sketches upon papyrus,stone, or wood, to the wall. Of this practice we give twoexamples. The first is an elaborate composition in which severalmodifications and corrections of lines and attitudes may be… … Fig. 25S.—Design transferred by squaring. From Trisse. The same device is sometimes made use of to transfer heads,and even animals, from a small sketch to the wall. In the tombof Amenophis III., in the Bab-el-RIolouk, there is a fine portraitof a prince thus squared ; at Beni-Hassan we find a cow…
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