The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used (1887)
Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.) · New York, M.T. Richardson · leaf 123
sel.be found in a work pub-lished by him, entitled Hints on HouseholdTastes. Unfortunately it is simply a style—not a classified order with defined principlesof treatment and uses of application and delinea-tion. Delineated with taste and judgment, it maybe made pleasing to the eye; but the… … EBONIZING SOFT WOODS. 117 and repulsive to those enjoying* a fair degree ofrefinement in the aesthetics of ornamentation;this may cause its rejection even as a styleexcept by a limited number who prefer oddities,or, who, being devoid of skill in the art, wish topalm off monstrosities as works of…
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