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)

STRONG AND WEAK POINTS. 51

which gives the forte points of a picture, in their
whole length, cover what may be termed the
forte or strong parts of a picture. If the object
be so large as considerably to overspread one
of the forte points, it must principally occupy
some of the forte parts of the drawing.

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