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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 320

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taken not to break the tail. But for all the smaller and middle sized species, the best mode is to preserve them in spirits ; and of the larger kind which are skinned, the skeletons ought to be kept. The flesh should be taken away with knives and scalpels as well as possible, and the bones…

Decorative arts · Art · Artists' materials · Taxidermy

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