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 204
ettering.—The painting of letters on wagons, cars,and stages, is one of the finest branches of thetrade, and it is made a specialty by many, par-ticularly in large cities. The work is much finerthan the work of a sign writer, and the style of LETTERING. 197 letters used are in most cases entirely… … Fig. 34.—New York Style of Roman Letter. oil-colors and oil-size. It is not our intention togive a lengthy treatise on the art of lettering, butsufficient to notice the principal points thereof.Taking- the Roman letter for a base, we find thatalmost every section of the country or large city
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