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 275
to these the lines are tobe drawn. After a while such leading-strings musthowever be discarded. This study is to be varied by drawing the lines so asto form an obtuse angle, a b c. Fig. 58, and in this and thelast exercise the horizontal and perpendicular lines areafterwards to be produced {made… … Fig. 60.
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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