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Morse's manual of art : a self teacher in all branches of deocrative art, embracing almost every variety of painting and drawing, on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, etc. : illustrated (1884)

Morse, D. D · Chicago : [D.D. Morse] · leaf 28

An illustration from Morse's manual of art : a self teacher in all branches of deocrative art, embracing almost every variety of painting and drawing, on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, etc. : illustrated, 1884, leaf 28
. 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…

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