out into the field
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front decorative flyleaf (detail)
Ladies’ Manual of Art : Or, Profit and Pastime : a Self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood. The secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel & crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc.
Chicago, 1890
Stanford copy, no date of digitization
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“It is a remarkable fact that all the lines in nature are curve lines...” p 11
“make some trials by exaggerating this fault.” p 104
epigram ex p 10
tags:
curves; exaggeration; faults; fields; lines; straights; subterranean channels