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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 70

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nd pyramidal form, more appropriately placed on the lawn or in the park. The foliage is imitated with a bold touch, somewhat like that of the Spanish chestnut, but radiating more directly from centres, as several leaflets spring from one stalk. THE LOMBARDY OR COMMON PO PL A R — Pop ulus Dilatata.… … mendation that it possesses, that of yielding to every breath of air and of waving from top to bottom in gentle sweeps, or as Leigh Hunt expresses it, " The Poplar's shoot, Whirl, like a feather waves from head to foot,"

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