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The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1898)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Maynard, Merrill ; London : G. Allen · leaf 313

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force in proportion totheir age, and the lateral leverage upon them,bears them downwards at the extremities, letter in.] ON COLOUR AND COMPOSITION. 273 so that, as before noticed, the lower thebough grows on the stem, the more itdroops (Fig. 17, p. 121); besides this, nearlyall beautiful trees have… … of tree radiation, as opposed to leaf radiation.In this figure, however, all secondary rami-fication is unrepresented, for the sake of sim-plicity; but if we take one half of such atree, and merely give two secondary branchesto each main branch (as represented in thegeneral branch structure shown…

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