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 128
EEN. 121 point H at the top. Next take a piece of stringand tie it around the two pins quite tig-lit, thenremove the pin at point H, and put in its place thepoint of a pencil, as shown in the eng-raving, and,keeping the string- taut, move the pencil along.You will find that the string directs the… … Fig. 22.—Method of Laying Out an Ellipse. measurements on the lines H and N : for instance,if we measure twenty-two inches on line N, andfour inches on line H, the oval will be very longand slim, but nevertheless a perfect ellipse. Thismay be done with the compass alone, but it cannot be done so…
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