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Identifier: paintersencyclop00gard (find matches)
Title: The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York, M.T. Richardson
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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estles or lad-ders, and some two-inch planks. These are easilyprocurable. It may not be out of place to explain a few ofthe terms and phrases made use of by the profes-sion inside a theatre, as many of these words willno doubt be used in latter paragraphs.Act Drop.—A picture, or single painted surface ofcanvas, let down by way of a blind or curtain be-tween the acts, so as to close up the prosceniumopening. Borders.—Also known as hanging scenes and soffits. Borders are of three descriptions ; in-terior, sky and foliage borders. The interiors arepainted to imitate ceilings or roofs of rooms, huts,etc., the other two are used for exterior scenes.They are merely strips of painted canvas hungacross the top of the stage to screen the spaceabove. Box Scenes.—Instead of the usual wings rangedone behind the other, as in the old method, thereis a series of flats on each side, extending fromthe proscenium wing up to the back. The backpart of the stage is likewise enclosed in this man- 323
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324 SCENE PAINTING. ner; the stage is thus completely enclosed on allthree sides, the doors, windows, etc., being- placedwhere required. By this means a more perfectrepresentation of a room can be obtained, thanwhere wings are employed. Known, also, as en-closed chamber scenes. Such a scene as this, ofcourse, represents the sides and further end of theroom.

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