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The vague shapes upon the lawn showed like mere drawings in outline, the road became a pallid blur in the formless distance, and the shine of the lamplight on the drive shifted and grew dim as if a curtain had dropped across the windows.
Surely he must realize what was happening and his huge responsibility he must. Helena disappeared. Geoffrey volunteered to tie up a portfolio they had only half examined, while Buntingford finished a letter. While he was handling it, the portfolio slipped, and a number of drawings fell out pell-mell upon the floor. Geoffrey stooped to pick them up.
Thus the sketch of a mammoth, showing the long hair which served to protect this animal from the cold, was found engraved upon a piece of mammoth ivory, and one of a group of reindeer on a piece of reindeer horn. There were also drawings of the cave-bear, the seal, etc., and one very interesting group showing the aurochs, a number of trees, and a man with a snake apparently biting his heel.
Before going into the value of charcoal as a medium in the recording of the various aspects of nature in black-and-white, it will be wise to review the several mediums in general use, namely, etching, pen and ink, lithographic crayon, and charcoal gray in connection with Chinese white; it will be well, also, to note the various mechanical processes in use for the reproductions of these drawings on white paper.
A steam-traveller was made and sent out by one of the most eminent firms in England, after two years of experiments and an outlay of some thousands of pounds, which would never do much more than move itself about, and at last had to be laid aside as useless. But the same descriptions and drawings having been shown to Mr.
The growth of a gallery Vasari's Passaggio Cosimo I Francis I Ferdinand I Ferdinand II Cosimo III Anna Maria Ludovica de' Medici Pietro-Leopoldo The statues of the façade Art, literature, arms, science, and learning The omissions Florentine rapacity An antique custom Window views The Uffizi drawings The best picture.
"Nothing throughout the length and breadth of the land" we quote from Mr. Ford "creates greater suspicion or jealousy than a stranger's making drawings, or writing down notes in a book; whoever is observed 'taking plans, or 'mapping the country, for such are the expressions of the simplest pencil sketches, is thought to be an engineer, a spy, or, at all events, to be about no good." Mr.
If you'll leave these drawings, I'll think them over and call you up again in a few days." At Judge Cutler's suggestion, Archey had been elected treasurer to take Burdon's place. Mary took the plans into his office and showed them to him. They were still discussing them, sitting at opposite sides of his flat-top desk, when the twelve o'clock whistle blew.
Charles's library consisted chiefly of epitaphs, drawings of monuments and arms, and an historical catalogue of the officers of the College of Arms. Some of these are now at the Herald's College, one of the manuscripts is in the Lansdowne collection, and the others were bought by Harley.
They showed him Francisco's drawings with enthusiastic eagerness; and Arthur, though no great judge of drawing, was in astonishment, and frequently repeated, "I know a gentleman who visits my master who would like these things. I wish I might have them to show him." "Take them, then," said Carlo; "I wish all Naples could see them, provided they might be liked half as well as I like them."
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