Architectural drawing by Spiers Richard Phené

Author:Spiers, Richard Phené. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Architectural drawing
Publisher: New York, London [etc.] Cassell and company, limited
Published: 1888-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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would consider his design properly studied unless the scheme of ornament and sculpture had been transferred to his half-inch scale detail. The usual custom would be to suggest it on the ^" scale design; develop it on the ^' scale drawing; and finally proceed to draw it out to quarter full size or any scale required for the modelling. In this manner the relative size and importance of the decorative and the architectural features are maintained.

92. There is also another advantage of which the English student rarely avails himself, z.e,, the constant practice of at least attempting to design his own ornament and figures. To draw a figure to a small scale is not difficult, even to those students who have never had the advantage of drawing from the antique or life; and it is a singular fact that the text-books of figure drawing used by the students of the French school are the illustrations of the ** Iliad" and *'Odyssey" by our own sculptor Flaxman.

Academy are thrown open to the architectural student if he chooses to avail himself of the privilege; but since the foundation of the Architectural School in 1870 only two or three have availed themselves of the opportunity afforded them to study in the two schools above named.*

• In the '* ficole des Beaox Arts," at Paris, a careful drawing of an antique statue is one of the tests of power of drawing required before passing to the upper school. The late Mr. William Burges frequently insisted on the great value which could be derived from the drawing of the antique figure; and Mr. Gwilt in his " EncyclopaBdia" (published in 1842, and since revised by. Mr. Wyatt Papworth) gives similar advice, but with the proviso that the student should learn first how to draw ornament.

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