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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 161

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iples. Itis effected by the help of a common drawing-jtable, and two rulers; so that there is no dif-ficulty in giving an almost perfectly correctirepresentation of any object adaptgd to thisIperspective,.to which the artist has^ access, ifhe has a very simple knowledge of its prin-ciples and a… … There should be a ruler in the form of theletter T, to slide on one side of the drawingtable. The rulers should be kept, by smallprominences on the under side, from being inimmediate contact with the paper, to preventits blotting the fresh drawn lines as it slidesover them ; and a second ruler, by…

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