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The elements of art; a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist (1848)

Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889, Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889. American drawing book · London, D. Bogue · leaf 56

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52 RUDIMENTS OF DRAWING. … man should look to something more accurate and unerring. Even in the next outline, although the head is, as it were, forced into the oval, and the curve indicating the middle point of the forehead and mouth adapted to it, the whole seems rather an affectation of method than a prac- tical…

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