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 363
eferring to a square only is, however, shownin Fig. 139, which represents the same object placedhorizontally above the level of the eye, and on the leftof the spectator. Draw the rectangle a b c d, representing the edge ofthe object, and from c and d draw lines to the Point ofSight. From d draw a… … Fig. 140. then to be drawn. This, if continued, would meet thehorizontal in the second Point of Distance. From bdraw a line to the Point of Sight, intersecting a perpen-dicular drawn from f in g. Now within c d set off thedistances c h and d i, equal to A c, and draw lines fromthese points to the…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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