The chapter on Perspective is full and well illustrated, and useful to architectural or mechanical draughtsmen, may-be, but little so to artists.

And as for the employment of time, which often hangs so heavily on a soldier's hands, really I am ready to say, if you are neither men of science, nor draughtsmen, nor sportsmen, why, go and collect beetles.

Genius comes with inspiration, as inspiration does with genius; and we are our own architects and draughtsmen, rioting at liberty with Nature's splendid palette at our command, and no thought of rule or stint.

French spies overran the Rhineland, and German draughtsmen were busy in the cities and plains of Alsace-Lorraine.

He compared them with the figures on the other slip,they were just so similar as two draughtsmen hastily copying from a common model would make them.

These comprised Dr. Solander, Zoffani, the portrait painter, Dr. Lynd of Edinburgh, to secure whose services Parliament had made a special grant of 4000 pounds (though "what discoveries they expected him to make I could not understand," says Cook), and nine others, draughtsmen and servants; at least three more than had been thought necessary when the vessel was purchased.

When they had not épingles, honchets, or draughtsmen to play with, they used their fingers instead, and played a game which is still most popular amongst the Italian people, called the morra, and which was as much in vogue with the ancient Romans as it is among the modern Italians.

There is also a school for potters, and the Americans are sending to the School of Art at Bombay sixty boys to be designers, draughtsmen, illustrators and qualified in other of the industrial arts.

" XI The four greatest draughtsmen of this epoch were Lionardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffaello, and Andrea del Sarto.

We feel similar distinctions in the case of all great draughtsmen.

But I think you said that the drawings were in a drawer in your own roomnot the outer office, where the draughtsmen are, I presume?"

"He is engaged," answered one of the draughtsmen; "very particularly engaged.

Ten minutes later Mr. Dixon, having questioned his draughtsmen, followed him.

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Tapestry is woven from the designs of excellent masters; great painters contribute arabesques of fresco or of stucco mixed with gilding, and glass is coloured from the outlines of such draughtsmen as Ghiberti.

Few draughtsmen carried the study of muscular anatomy so far as Antonio.

How great the Trecentisti were as draughtsmen, how imaginative was the beauty of their conception, can be best appreciated by thus artificially separating their design from their colouring.

Many of them make carvings and rude illustrations, but only a few have the gift of carrying a picture in their mind's eye, judging by the completeness and firmness of their designs, which show no trace of having been elaborated in that step-by-step manner which is characteristic of draughtsmen who are not natural artists.

I knew that reed pens were still in use by draughtsmen of decorative leanings with an affection for the "fat line."

Could any of our friends be draughtsmen?

Draughtsmen usually sign their work intelligibly, and even when they use a device instead of a signature their identity is easily traceable.

Could it be that Mr. Graves, for instance, was an illustrator, and that Thorndyke had established his identity by looking through the works of all the well-known thick-line draughtsmen?

Drawings and reproductions from frescoes, found in these old Italian cities, were in the possession of the draughtsmen and designers of the time; and an instance in point of their adaptation is to be seen in the small boudoir of the Marquise de Serilly, one of the maids of honour to Marie Antoinette.

" During the Presidency, scarcely anything of a public nature was penned by Washington,Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Randolph acting as his draughtsmen.

Of course they do not compare, as draughtsmen and technists, with men who have spent years in getting a knowledge of the proportions of the human figure, and the best methods of applying color; but, on the other hand, they are safe from that most alluring and fatal course of study which makes the subject only a lay figure to display artistic capacity on.