It's only taken a decade or two, but I finally found an affordable copy of I. Page's Guide To Drawing The Acanthus, c1840. While I'm not a carver, I've seen this title referred to enough times that I wanted to read one, if not hold the real thing, if not actually own it.
Sorry Kessinger, Google books does not do it for me.
Courtesy of the Liverpool Library which saw fit to discard this copy, it's now in my hands. Page is not one to fear to state his thoughts:
"To enable those who have not talent in arrangement, sufficient to complete their perseverance in study, I would advise them to notice the general variety of diagrams heretofore given..." p.161
Has anyone here referred to this title when carving? From the number of editions, it would seem to have been a fairly popular title throughout the 19th C.
Sorry Kessinger, Google books does not do it for me.
Courtesy of the Liverpool Library which saw fit to discard this copy, it's now in my hands. Page is not one to fear to state his thoughts:
"To enable those who have not talent in arrangement, sufficient to complete their perseverance in study, I would advise them to notice the general variety of diagrams heretofore given..." p.161
Has anyone here referred to this title when carving? From the number of editions, it would seem to have been a fairly popular title throughout the 19th C.