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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 59

An illustration from Drawing from nature : a series of progressive instructions in sketching, to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School, 1877, leaf 59 — THE WALNUT. IV.) THE WALNUT — Juglans Regia, ' Her timber is for various uses good ; The carver she supplies with useful wood. She makes the painter's fading colours last. A table she affords us, and repast. E'en while we feast, her oil our lamp supplies, The rankest poison by her virtue dies."… … but deeply furrowed. The leaves are lighter and of a warmer hue than those already described, contrasting well with the dark tints of the elm and beech, somewhat resembling those of the ash, but should be imitated with a heavier touch. The foliage is late in appearing, and falls with the first…

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