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 307
istance between the pointsis much more than half the line (say to a). Keep the steel point in a, and with the pencil pointdraw a part of a circle, c d.* * A part of a circle is called an ai^c. 280 ELEMENTARY DRAWING FOR HOUSE PAINTERS. Place the steel point in b, and with the same length *in the… … Fig. 81. Place the steel point of the compass in any pointabove the line, as c. Extend the pencil point until it reaches b. With theradius from c to b, draw a part of a circle cutting theline A B in the point d. From D draw a line passing through c and cuttingthe arc in e. Draw a line through e to…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-351-242.webp)
