Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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smooth board and a piece of charcoal serving e^erypurpose for a display of his art, his excellence consisting principallyin off-hand flourishing, a few specimens of which are shown on thenext page. Mr. Williams first came prnmiueutly before the country throughthe advertising of Peter Duff, proprietor of Duffs commercial col-lege, at Pittsburgh, in whose employ Mr. Williams was for some years,during which time he originated those off-hand specimens offlourishing which afterwards appeared in Packard and WilliamsGems of Penmanship, and other publications. From his worksthe penmen of the country have copied their flourishing, probably,more generally than any other books extant. In the later years of his life he gave muchattentinu to the i)repara-ti(m of his work for the engravers, thus transmitting to futuregenerations those Gems which will ever have admirers as longas the principles of beauty in proportion, shades, and curved linesendure. He died at Albany, N. Y., in January, 1871. -sC);
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are: First. The rules of proportion. Thebirds and swans here shown exhibit theforms we see in life. Second. He gave graceful curve toevery line he made ; there are nostraight lines. T)urd. He made contrast by an in-terblending of light and heavy shades. Fourth. Where lines extend in thesame direction they run parallel witheach other. Essentials in Flourishing. .WING mastered the principles of^^ proportion, cur\es, sliades ?f ■U.7T,0^ ^ ^ -9^°^

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