A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc., and a collection of useful receipts ; with nine coloured illustrations of woods and marbles, and numerous wood engravings (1888)
Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : C. Lockwood & Son · leaf 240
by their upper edges only, the surfacesthemselves not resting on anything. Now it is evidentthat if letters cut out of wood were so placed, thespectator could only read them if he came very closeto the window and looked directly upward. An in-scription or two may be seen in London, in which… … Fig. 44. admirably done; but, whilst an artist may admirethe drawing, the general public fail to read theinscription, since in some of the instances adduced it isalmost unreadable, and thus it cannot be denied thatthe skill and labour are misplaced. We have therefore come to the conclusion, in…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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