Le dessin pratique pour tous : premiers exercices, géométrie, perspective, tracé des ombres, anatomie, composition, architecture, ameublement, costume
A French drawing manual of 1900 by Edmond-Eugène Valton, published in Paris by Librairie illustrée Montgredien, teaching amateurs and students the basics of drawing, perspective, shadow, anatomy, composition, architecture and furnishing. Its pictures are fine pen-and-ink line drawings: a landscape with a wooded bank, a carved armchair drawn in plain outline, a vaulted interior with hatched shading, and a crowded classical hall of figures after a Raphael fresco. A designer can take from them clean contour hatching, convincing receding perspective, and the economical way lines alone build up architecture and furniture.
