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The elements of art; a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist (1848)

Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889, Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889. American drawing book · London, D. Bogue · leaf 94

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very individual 5 and from infancy to manhood, they undergo most marked changes. Taking the size of the head, as a scale of measurement : the whole length of a child, two months old, will be found rarely to exceed four times the height of his head j — at one year, four and a half heads j — at three…

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