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 339
. 312 ELEMENTARY DRAWING FOR HOUSE PAINTERS. Fig. 121. To DRAW AN ELLIPSE ; the diameters A B AND C D BEING GIVEN. Place the diameters a b and c d, at right angles toeach other, intersecting in e. Find the foci f, f, as in the last figure. Between e and f, mark off any number of points, as1, 2, 3,… … Fig. 121. The arcs h, h ; h, h, will intersect the arcs g, g ;g, G in I, I; I, I, and these will be four points in the curve. Proceed to strike arcs from f f, first with 2 b, andthen with 2 a, and these intersecting will give four morepoints. When arcs have been struck with the lengths fromall the…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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