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Smith, G. / The laboratory; or, School of arts: containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general; and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials
(1799)
Part II. A short introduction to the art of drawing in general; with observations on pattern drawing, pp. 28-58
Page 28
18 THE LABOFATORY-
A distinction ought to be made between the subjects of
medals, and kept in their respective order-; viz. some are
struck in the memory of coronations, nuptials, christenings,
and burials ; others on sieges, victories, alliances, jubilees.
One class ought to be set apart for secular, another for
ecclesiastical, and a third for curious students in general.
PART I.
- ,A
SHORT INTRODUCTION
TO
THE ART OF DRAlPING IN GENERAL
WITH{ OBSERVATItONSON PATTERN DRAWING.
'HE art of drawing being little inferior to writing, in
JLits consequences, it is sirprising that more regard'is
ritpaid to¢ it iiithe educationxf youth; since its use is of
sogreit benefitii the traisating of business, in many cases
performing -what words are insdfficieint to'expain; there-
fore the cultivtion is as nmessary as that of writing.
What tr e, manufacture, art, or science is there in be.
ing, dawing and4siging is no requisite? -He who
1is
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