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flower, or branch of a tree, are not betrayed so in-
stantly to the unpractised eye, as is a want of expres-
sion in a countenance, or of accuracy in the propor-
tions of a figure. When these latter subjects are over
come, and they require no more study to vanquish than
the others, then inferior subjects, as inanimate stu-
dies always appear, are deprived of every difficulty.
We shall not now detain our young friends with a
catalogue of the various materials which the study
requires, or of those marks which denote excellence
in their quality: this necessary information will be
found in a subsequent page of the Treatise. (P. 14.)
ADVISED COURSE OF STUDY.
This division will be most properly commenced, by
warning the reader against those bad habits, which
when once acquired, usually maintain their dominion,
in spite of all endeavours to shake them off. Instead
of a stiff, formal, cramped, unhealthy, ungraceful posi-
tion, let the attitude be easy, disengaged, free, un-
constrained, and upright. Avoid stooping, or pressing
against the table on which you draw, as being injuri-
ous to health. The student will not find his progress
facilitated by those contortions of countenance, which
sometimes accompany every outline of the unready
hand. Perhaps the usual position of the hand in writ-
ing is the easiest and best for the pencil and the crayon;
except, indeed, that the tip of the little finger should
be studiously carried free of the paper, as otherwise it
might injure the design ; the point also should be fur-
ther from the fingers, as giving' a greater command, and
conducing to a bolder effect. The utmost neatness
must be inculcated at all times ; as, whatever may be
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flower, or branch of a tree, are not betrayed so in-
stantly to the unpractised eye, as is a want of expres-
sion in a countenance, or of accuracy in the propor-
tions of a figure. When these latter subjects are over
come, and they require no more study to vanquish than
the others, then inferior subjects, as inanimate stu-
dies always appear, are deprived of every difficulty.
We shall not now detain our young friends with a
catalogue of the various materials which the study
requires, or of those marks which denote excellence
in their quality: this necessary information will be
found in a subsequent page of the Treatise. (P. 14.)
ADVISED COURSE OF STUDY.
This division will be most properly commenced, by
warning the reader against those bad habits, which
when once acquired, usually maintain their dominion,
in spite of all endeavours to shake them off. Instead
of a stiff, formal, cramped, unhealthy, ungraceful posi-
tion, let the attitude be easy, disengaged, free, un-
constrained, and upright. Avoid stooping, or pressing
against the table on which you draw, as being injuri-
ous to health. The student will not find his progress
facilitated by those contortions of countenance, which
sometimes accompany every outline of the unready
hand. Perhaps the usual position of the hand in writ-
ing is the easiest and best for the pencil and the crayon;
except, indeed, that the tip of the little finger should
be studiously carried free of the paper, as otherwise it
might injure the design ; the point also should be fur-
ther from the fingers, as giving' a greater command, and
conducing to a bolder effect. The utmost neatness
must be inculcated at all times ; as, whatever may be