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524.

p. 262

A METHOD OF DRAWING AN OBJECT IN RELIEF AT NIGHT.

Place a sheet of not too transparent paper between the relievo and the light and you can draw thus very well.

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Footnotes

262:249 : Bodies thus illuminated will show on the surface of the paper how the copyist has to distribute light and shade.


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