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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 163

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t suit the purpose designed.And this will produce no confusion, providedthose liberties are explained: for instance, itmay be often expedient to make the scale inthe vertical direction considerably larger thanin the horizontal. It may in some cases be necessary to represent on paper what is hid… … vase as would enable an artist to model it exactly THE DECORATOR S ASSISTANT. 129 would be exceedingly easy. Let a vertical linebe drawn to, Vepresent the axis of the vase, andlet points be taken in that axis, correspondingto the centres of the principal circles of thevase, through which the…

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