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A handbook of pictorial art (1875)

Tyrwhitt, R. St. John (Richard St. John), 1827-1895, Macdonald, A. (Alexander), 1839-1921 · Oxford, The Clarendon press · leaf 170

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beauty,and want to produce it themselves by force of feeling withoutpower. For some time they must be kept gaining power,without being excited by the beauty of what they copy; andpractise the short rule for all curves; which is to put themin strait waistcoats. The eye can always from the first… … CURVE No. I. The continuous lines represent the ligure to be drawn, tiie dotted onesthose necessary for its construction. Begin by drawing (very lightly) two lines at right angles (o eachother AB, CD, making E their point of intersection, and AE = CE =BE = DE. Join AC, CB, BD, DA, and bisect them…

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