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Title: The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas, watercolorist Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, publisher Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer
Subjects: Drawing Watercolor painting Color
Publisher: London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row
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purpose I strongly recommend BewicksNatural History of British Birds; and if the studentwill only make a point of copying every subject thereinfaithfully, he will soon be capable of executing (as far asfinishing is concerned) any thing that may come acrosshim in the shape of a bird. I am aware that manydrawing-masters will be surprised at my recommendingwood-cuts as copies, but I know from my own expe-rience, as well as that of many of my pupils, that it isthe best method of obtaining a facility of execution. Inorder to get a good manner of imitating hair, a closeexamination of some of Scotts exquisite engravings ofanimals will be of great assistance; he must however beextremely cautious that he does not get a sameness ormannered style of working, and so represent with thesame kind of lines the fur of the rabbit, and the shaggyhair of the stag. The annexed plate is a fac-simi!e ofa pencil drawing of a stag, the manner of doing whichI have already spoken of in Lesson XI. The thin light
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