 | Johann Caspar Lavater - Physiognomy - 1850 - 820 pages
...inevitable, and the designer is in the most inconvenient position ; neither are the preparatory steps every where possible, nor simple enough. A seat purposely...pencil, draw with the right. The glass in a detached slidingframe, may be raised, or lowered, according to the height of the person. The bottom of the glass... | |
 | Johann Caspar Lavater - Physiognomy - 1878 - 820 pages
...inevitable, and the designer is in the most inconvenient position ; neither are the preparatory steps every where possible, nor simple enough. A seat purposely...pencil, draw with the right. The glass in a detached slidingframe, may be raised, or lowered, according to the height of the person. The bottom of the glass... | |
 | Alice Van Leer Carrick - Artists - 1928 - 338 pages
...hollowcutting process without a great deal of quotation. First Lavater; in his Physiognomy he wrote, "The shade should be taken on post paper, or rather...bottom of the glass frame, being thin, will be best of 6 PROFILE MACHINE USED BY MOSES CHAPMAN, A SILHOUETTIST WHO WORKED IN ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS,... | |
 | Susan M. Stabile - History - 2004 - 310 pages
...well-dried. Let the [sitter's] head and back be supported by the chair, and the shade fall on the oiled paper behind a clear flat polished glass. Let the...and having a sharp black-lead pencil, draw with the right."185 Like the mirror, which reflects an aging woman's visage, this method used light's reflection.... | |
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... where possible, nor simple enough. A seat purposely contrived would be more convenient. The shade should be taken on post paper, or rather on thin oiled paper, well dried. Let the head and back be supported by a chair, and the shade fall on the oil... 