How to paint : a complete compendium of the art designed for the use of the tradesman, mechanic, merchant, and farmer, and to guide the professional painter ...
A nineteenth-century American painting manual by F. B. Gardner, published in New York in 1874 for tradesmen, mechanics, merchants and farmers as well as professional painters. The pictures are small black-line ornamental headpieces and tailpieces, mostly symmetrical scrolls of foliage, flowers and lyres, showing the decorative vocabulary of the period that a designer could adapt for borders or dividers.
