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ARMENINO.
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painters, always prepared the cartoon with the greatest care and
industry.
Of making cartoons, and the materials used.—The usual
manner of making cartoons is, first, to measure the height and
breadth of the place where the work is to be made, and then to take
paper of the same size, which is made by pasting sheets together
with flour paste, until the cartoon is of the same size as the before
mentioned place; when it is dry, paste should be spread all round it
to the breadth of about an inch: it must next be fastened to the
smooth wall, and then sprinkling water over it, and pulling and
stretching it all round, care must be taken that, as it dries, it may
remain smooth and well stretched. It must then be measured out,
and divided by faint lines, into the same number of squares, as the
small design which is to be imitated; and then, alhthat is contained
in the first design must be copied with great care and skill, until
every thing is drawn in its proper place.®
Of dividing the cartoon by squares.—There are certain
persons who say, that it is a bad plan to use these squares,b and allege
frivolous reasons in support of their assertion; for example, that a
great deal of the first design is lost, which it is impossible to enlarge
properly otherwise than by the eye. Now the eye seems to me to
have but little to do with it, for, be a man ever so much accustomed
to drawing on a large scale, he cannot deny, that when a design is
intended to be copied from a piece of paper, which is generally made
about the size of the hand, or a little larger, on to a picture
of the size of ten or twenty feet, that it is much easier to do it with
the squares than without them; besides which, there is the ground
plan, the perspective, and the buildings, which in the small design
are drawn by measure, and require merely to be copied off and
enlarged in the same proportion, almost without trouble. What is
the use, therefore, of making any difficulty about this, when, by doing
it, we have all the outlines determined ? And I say this, not only
with regard to the things I have already mentioned, but also relative
to the position of the most minute details, being certain at the same
a For the modern method of making the cartoon, see I. Rep. p. 22, 25.—Ed.
b The technical word for the process of enlarging by squares is graticolare.
See Pozzo’s Treatise.—Ed.
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painters, always prepared the cartoon with the greatest care and
industry.
Of making cartoons, and the materials used.—The usual
manner of making cartoons is, first, to measure the height and
breadth of the place where the work is to be made, and then to take
paper of the same size, which is made by pasting sheets together
with flour paste, until the cartoon is of the same size as the before
mentioned place; when it is dry, paste should be spread all round it
to the breadth of about an inch: it must next be fastened to the
smooth wall, and then sprinkling water over it, and pulling and
stretching it all round, care must be taken that, as it dries, it may
remain smooth and well stretched. It must then be measured out,
and divided by faint lines, into the same number of squares, as the
small design which is to be imitated; and then, alhthat is contained
in the first design must be copied with great care and skill, until
every thing is drawn in its proper place.®
Of dividing the cartoon by squares.—There are certain
persons who say, that it is a bad plan to use these squares,b and allege
frivolous reasons in support of their assertion; for example, that a
great deal of the first design is lost, which it is impossible to enlarge
properly otherwise than by the eye. Now the eye seems to me to
have but little to do with it, for, be a man ever so much accustomed
to drawing on a large scale, he cannot deny, that when a design is
intended to be copied from a piece of paper, which is generally made
about the size of the hand, or a little larger, on to a picture
of the size of ten or twenty feet, that it is much easier to do it with
the squares than without them; besides which, there is the ground
plan, the perspective, and the buildings, which in the small design
are drawn by measure, and require merely to be copied off and
enlarged in the same proportion, almost without trouble. What is
the use, therefore, of making any difficulty about this, when, by doing
it, we have all the outlines determined ? And I say this, not only
with regard to the things I have already mentioned, but also relative
to the position of the most minute details, being certain at the same
a For the modern method of making the cartoon, see I. Rep. p. 22, 25.—Ed.
b The technical word for the process of enlarging by squares is graticolare.
See Pozzo’s Treatise.—Ed.