Art recreations; being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc. (1873)
Day, Henry · Boston, Shepard & Gill · leaf 45
ick,which are raised at the two extremes of a board thebreadth of the frame: the cheeks are grooved to re-ceive the frame. In the middle of this board squareholes must be made to receive the movable eye-holepiece, so as to be raised or lowered at pleasure. Atthe top of this is a circular piece of… … Place this instrument before the object you woulddraw, look through the little hole, and if you see allthe proposed objects on the glass, the instrument isrightly fixed; otherwise, fix the sight nearer the glassin one of the other square holes, adapt the eye-piece thehight you wish, and fasten it…
Arts · Painting · Drawing
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