Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 484
min, having distinct mechanical skill, constructeda machine, the like of which had been the mode inFrance since 1786 — a machine for taking a portrait,a physionotrace ; by it an exact profile of the sittercould be made, life size. By another machine,called a pantograph, this perfect profile could… … 750 Two Centuries of Costume shading. So constant was the industry of SaintMemin, so deft his hand, that he was able to sell,and at profit, the original drawing (which was lifesize) in black crayon on red paper neatly framed,the copper plate of reduced size, and twelve printsfrom this plate, all…
Clothing and dress
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