Smith, Thomas [Editor]: The Art Of Drawing In Its Various Branches: Exemplified In A Course Of Twenty-Eight progressive Lessons, Calculated To Afford Those Who Are Unacquainted With The Art, The Means Of Acquiring A Competent Knowledge Without The Aid Of A Master ; Being The Only Work Of The Kind In Which The Principles Of Effect Are Explained In A Clear, Methodical, And At The Same Time Familiar Style. Illustrated With Coloured Designs And Numerous Wood Engravings (London, 1827)

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DRAWING.

other words, the nearer the representation approaches to
deception, the better it is.

Drawing may be divided into two grand classes or
divisions, at the head of one of which stands historical
or figure drawing, whilst landscape drawing is ihe prin-
cipal of the other. Under these two heads may be
classed every other department of the art, attaching
portrait, miniature, and animals to the former, and
marine subjects, fruit and flowers, still life and archi-
tecture, to the latter.

Historical drawing consists in representing any histo-
rical fact, whether sacred or profane; any allegorical or
mythological subject, or any scene from the works of
fiction ; in all of which the human figure constitutes the
principal part.

Portrait painting is the exact representation of any
particular person, and as it consists in the delineation of
the human figure, it is justly considered as bearing a
near relation to historical drawing.

Miniature is nothing more than portrait painting on a
small scale, and more highly finished, though it is gene-
rally understood to apply to the representation of the
face and bust, and not the whole length figure.

The drawing of animals is a department of the art
which is connected both with history and landscape,
few pictures of either being painted, but more particu-
larly of the latter, in which they are not introduced ;
notwithstanding this circumstance, we choose to class
animal painting, w'hen taken as a separate study with