The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 341
hands, or more or less above or below, or nearer to or furtherfrom them. A careful imitation of the disposition of the hands,as represented in the annexed illustrations, will enable our readers to produce shadows of The Cure (Fig. 1), a fox(Fig. 2), bull (Fig. 3), rabbit (Fig. 4), goose (Fig. 5),… … Fig. 2. represents a bull, the fingers are curved, the palm turned in-wards, and the candle placed before the wrist, so that the*animal represented may appear in the shadow, with the muzzlesnaturally foreshortened. Again, in the snake (Fig. 7) the fingers are kept flat and welLbehind each other,…
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