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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left side of the drawing, by which the work will get
smeared and rubbed. Should the student sit with his
back towards the window, he will sit in his own lio-ht.

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The student ought next to procure a smooth board,
which he should place on the table with the farthest side
propped up with a book or any other solid object, by
which it will be brought into a sloping direction like a
desk, nothing being more injurious to the health of
young people than the pernicious custom of drawing on
a flat table, roundness of shoulders and contraction of
the chest being the usual consequences of this practice.

These preparations being made, the student ought to
choose some simple subject like the following:

which he ought to sketch out as faintly as possible with
his H pencil, beginning with the top of the largest post
first, continuing it down to the line of the water, and
then proceeding to the smaller post, after which he must
draw in the bank and the line of the water, all of which
ought to be done so faintly, that the outline shall be but
just perceptible. This being done, let the student com-
pare his sketch with the original very attentively, in order
to find out where it is wrong, which may also be done by