Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 308
OUR SKETCHING CLUB. 290 harm, is trying to finish it all over quite evenly, and failing. Sternchase does this successfully; but to this day none of us, who care most for him, know how far he is in the right about it. There is a capital example of an old tower, p. 300, Elements, which shows how… … Fig. 36. curve, varied by the tiles. But all depends on a large ring which hangs against the inner wall, and contrasts with all the perpendicular lines. By the way, that must be why such emphasis is always laid on great rings in walls of sea-ports, &c. — they contrast so with the square lines of…
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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