Free-hand drawing - a manual for teachers and students (1898) (14597748390)

Identifier: freehanddrawingm1898cros (find matches)
Title: Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Cross, Anson K. (Anson Kent), 1862-1944
Subjects: Drawing
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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ence between this method and its predecessor con- ■sists in this, — that it is, first of all, necessary to train the eye by giving itsome sure means of correcting its mistakes in the estimates of lengths andforeshortenings. ... It will suffice to declare in favor of this Method thatnot only can it be taught more practically than any other, but that it has areliable starting point such as no other can offer. . . . We have seen thisperformed in the primary schools where the Method has been applied andwhere the drawings have seemed very remarkable. . . . The commissionhas judged the principles of it to be useful, and has the honor to recommendthem to your Excellency. Notwithstanding the merit which the system seemed to the boardto possess, it did.not-come into general use. For public schools, there is the objection to this system that themodels and all the apparatus must be large, expensive, and of sucha nature that class-work cannot be carried on in the ordinary school- TheDRAVJIAIG
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