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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 281

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Fig. 66. Fig. 67. perpendicular; whilst the other would cross the line,thus giving the idea of a hole having been bored in an … Fig. 68. Fig. 69. upright through which a branch had been made topass. FREE-HAND DRAWING. 255 2. The second point to which, the attention of thestudent must be called is the method of sketching thesecurves. It has already been pointed out in relation tostraight lines that they must not be sketched…

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