Art recreations : being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting ... moss work, papier mache ... wax work, shell work ... enamel painting, diaphanie ... illuminating &c. : with valuable receipts for preparing materials (1859)
Urbino, L. B. (Levina Buoncuore), -1888, Day, Henry · Boston : S.W. Tilton ; · leaf 31
he whole human form, being wholly dependent upon curved lines, no more appropriate place will be found in which to give a few elementary directions on this branch of the art of drawing ; and it may be remarked, that in all the works of nature no straight lines are to be found ; trees, flowers,… … readily preserved, and a little practice in profile drawing (strict attention being given to the originals) will insure a
Decorative arts · Decoration and ornament
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