The miniature painter's manual containing progressive lessons on the art of drawing and painting likenesses from life on card-board, vellum, and ivory, with concise remarks on the delineation of character and caricature (1844)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper · leaf 84
icture isconsequently greatly increased in value. Plate VI. contains three outlines of headsof eminent characters. No. 1 is the head ofCaptain Cook, the celebrated circumnaviga-tor. The spirit of discovery seems seated onhis brow, and we can fancy him anxiouslysurveying the horizon to catch the… … 67 this just and pious man in a light frivolousposition ? No. 3 is the head of the Rev. LaurenceSterne. Who that looks on this arch wag-gish face would think it was that of a reve-rend divine? The painter, feeling that thereverend gentleman was better known andappreciated as a humorous writer than…
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