Rimmer, William [Hrsg.]: Elements of design: book first. for the use of parents and teachers (Boston, 1864)

ELEMENTS OF DESIGN.

PART I.

VEETICAL ELEMENTS.

Section I. — Single Lines.

The teacher must explain that a stick will stand, if
balanced on one end, as in drawing No. 1, PI. 1 ; but
that, if not so balanced, it will fall, as in No. 2, unless
another stick is placed in front, as in No. 3 ; and that, the
farther the first leans, the more the second must lean to
keep it up, as in No. 4 ; that the upper part, a, must
be called the body, and the two lower parts, b, c, the
legs, as in No. 5 ; that the legs must be in two pieces, as
in No. 6, because legs are in two pieces; and that these
pieces can bend at the knee, as in No. 7; and then, that
if two other pieces are attached near the top of the
stick, with joints in them, as in No. 8, the stick will look
like a man; that the round ball on the top of the stick
must be called the head, and the part between that and
the shoulders the neck, and so on, as in the following
drawings: —