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The artist's assistant, or, School of science : forming a practical introduction to the polite arts, in painting, drawing, designing, perspective, engraving, colouring, &c. : with ample directions for japanning, enamelling, gilding, silvering, lacquering, &c. : and a valuable selection of miscellaneous secrets : illustrated with plates (1803)

London : Sold by T. Ostell, No. 3, Avemaria-Lane, Paternoster-Row : Printed by M. Swinney, Birmingham · leaf 30

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left, as broad as he is long. From one fide of the breaft to the other, two faces. The bone of the arm, called humerus, is the length of two faces, from the moulder to the elbow. From the end of the elbow to the root of the little finger, the bone called cubitus, with part of the hand, contains two… … THE ARTISTS ASSISTANT 7 «{ this breadth fhould be equal to the length of the body, you muft obferve that the boxes of the elbows with the humerus, and of the humerus with the fhoulder-blade, bear the proportion of half a face when the arms are*€ ftretched out. The fole of the foot is the fixth part…

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