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Some hints on learning to draw (1893)

Hutchinson, G. W. Caldwell, Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896 · London ; New York : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 73

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curate, to remember, to analyse by dividing complex material into its com-ponent parts, and to co-ordinate by putting material together so that it shall form aconsistent whole. Besides this it opens the mind to ideas of relation by compellingus to take account of the laws of harmony and… … Fig. 31. From the ground line draw a vertical line a b, the edgeof the block nearest to us. On the ground line mark off b oin proportion to a b. Draw from o a vertical line parallel to a b.On it cut off o c by careful measurement with a b ; then make theside c d so much shorter than a b as you find…

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