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Excerpt from The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture: Comprising Instructions for Designing and Delineating the Different Articles of Those Branches Geometrically and Pperspectively; Thereby Producing the Effect Each Will Have When Executed, and Shewing by a Scale the Real Measures for the Workman
The writers on the subject of cabinet furniture have been compara° tively few and the books hitherto published containing merely designs for furniture, and not rudiments, gave rise to the present work. It is true that Chippendale and Sheraton have given rules for drawing; but the ideas of their trivial compositions being taken flom the models of the French school Of about the middle of the last century, now obsolete, has entirely discouraged cabinet-makers from investigating the principles employed in their delineations and if they were so disposed, the latter author, who is the one most worthy of notice, has rendered wholly unintelligible most of the different figures in his work destroying the utility of his examples by entangling the vanishing points, and crossing the diagrams in a confused and cobweb-like manner, whereby it is utterly Impossible for the student to trace the proposed figure without being lost in a labyrinth of lines. The failure of many scientific authors has, without doubt, originated either from the supposition, that because their schemes were clear to themselves they must necessarily be so to others, or from a greater desiie to display their own mathematical knotvledge than to instruct the young practitioner.
As it is not so easy to convey our ideas clearly and forcibly in print as by verbal instruction, all'didactié treatises should be written with the utmost perspicuity, and as succinctly as possible, particularly works containing diagrams with letters of reference; for, as it requires the utmost attention, the student finds it difficult to follow the explana tion. From this consideration; the geometrical parts 'are here connected with the perspective objects themselves, so as to be understood in the delineation almost without references.
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