Encyclopedia of Western Art (Kōmō zatsuwa 紅毛雑話) : [volume 4]
Encyclopedia of Western Art, volume 4, is a woodblock-printed Japanese reference book compiled by Morishima Chūryō and published in Edo in 1787 by Suharaya Ichibei, drawing on Dutch painting treatises for Japanese readers. Its pictures are ruled, line-drawn instruction plates of heads with proportion grids, a standing male figure with horizontal measuring lines, hand gestures, stick figures in poses, and foot and head construction circles, which a designer might use as clear models for figure proportion and simplified construction.
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