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A guide to modelling in clay and wax : and for terra cotta, bronze and silver chasing and embossing, carving in marble and alabaster, moulding and casting in plaster of Paris : or, Sculptural art made easy for beginners

Edwards, Morton · 1891 · London : Lechertier, Barbe, & Co. · 8 pictures

An 1891 London how-to manual by Morton Edwards, published by Lechertier, Barbe & Co., teaching amateur beginners clay and wax modelling, chasing, plaster casting and stone carving. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings of wooden modelling stools and sculptors' modelling tools, with a designer able to take from them simple, practical object drawings with clear outlines and hatched shading.

Modeling · Sculpture -- Technique

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library