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Ladies' manual of art, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art : embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel, crayon, drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)

Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 32

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. It requires no cultivated taste — not even any great amount of critical observation — to see when an object which should look perfectly round, appears flattened on the one side, or swell too much on the other. The theory of foreground and middle distances and background, has much to do with the…

Decorative arts · Art · Artists' materials · Taxidermy

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