The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . seven minutes (twelve minutes are allowed to a part) ; the Antinous of the Vatican,seven heads and two parts; the Laocoon, seven heads, two parts, and three minutes 5 the DyingGladiator of the Capitol, eight heads; the Apollo Belvidere, seven heads, three parts, and sixminutes j the Venus de Medici, seven heads and three parts \ and the Grecian Shepherdess, atNaples, seven heads, three parts, and six mi
The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . seven minutes (twelve minutes are allowed to a part) ; the Antinous of the Vatican,seven heads and two parts; the Laocoon, seven heads, two parts, and three minutes 5 the DyingGladiator of the Capitol, eight heads; the Apollo Belvidere, seven heads, three parts, and sixminutes j the Venus de Medici, seven heads and three parts \ and the Grecian Shepherdess, atNaples, seven heads, three parts, and six minutes. 98. It should be borne in mind, that the proportions of the figure vary in almost everyindividual 5 and from infancy to manhood, they undergo most marked changes. Taking the sizeof the head, as a scale of measurement: the whole length of a child, two months old, will befound rarely to exceed four times the height of his head \ — at one year, four and a half heads 5—at three years, five and a quarter; — at five years, scarcely six 5 — at ten years, six and a half: —from fourteen to sixteen, about seven 5 — and thence, to manhood, seven and a half, and some-times CHAPTER IV. THE RUDIMENTS OF DRAWING. OF MANNER OR METHOD—THE ART OF WRITING, IN CONNEXION WITH DRAWING—GENERAL INSTRUC-TIONS, ETC—CONCLUSION,
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