Drawing from nature : a series of progressive instructions in sketching, to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School (1877)
Barnard, George, 1807-1890 · London : G. Routledge · leaf 157
es a useful foreground. Though entering my protest against this partial administration of the bill-hook, I should be sony to have the fir trees included in this doom, for underneath their shadow grow a profusion of whortleberries, loo lowly a shrub to be singly of use to the artist, yet valuable as… … wood around ; tree after tree is sacrificed as a roof or a floor is needed, while every one makes free with the " outsides " and odd bits for shed or pigsty.
Drawing · Landscape drawing · Plants in art
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