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Elementary instruction in the art of illuminating and missal painting on vellum : a guide to modern illuminators, with illustrations in outline as copies for the student (1860)

Laurent de Lara, D. (David), author · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 86

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ON TRACING AND TRANSFERRING. F a copy is to be made of any illu- mination, the easiest mode is by affixing a piece of French tracing paper on the back of the drawing,, and throwing it over the front ; begin with a fine-pointed hhh pencil, to draw an accurate outline of the whole, thin, pale and…

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