Howard, Frank: The sketcher's manual: or, the whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master (London, 1841)

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER III.

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Principles to be Observed is Making Pic-
tures ....... 23

Sect, I.—With Regard to Shapes and Lines 23

Sect. II.—With Regard to Arrangement of

the Subject ...... 27

Sect. III.—Relief ..... 38

CHAPTER IV.

Strong and Weak Points of a Picture . 43

Sect. I.—Rules to find them ... 47

Sect. II.—Regulations for the use of them 52

CHAPTER V.
The Effects of Perspective ... 55

CHAPTER VI.

Instructions on the Selection of Subjects

for Sketching from Nature . . .71

CHAPTER VII.

Progressive System of Execution . . 77

Concluding Remarks ..... 79