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PROLEGOMENA AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK ON PAINTING

the natural state; that is to say lies free and flowing.

EXAMPLE.

[Footnote 13: a c sia. In the original text b is written instead of c—an evident slip of the pen.] Let a b c be the fold of the drapery spoken of above, a c will be the places where this folded drapery is held fast. I maintain that the part of the drapery which is farthest from the plaited ends will revert most to its natural form.

Therefore, b being farthest from a and c in the fold a b c it will be wider there than anywhere else.

[Footnote: See Pl. XXVIII, No. 6, and compare the drawing from

Windsor Pl. XXX for farther illustration of what is here stated.]

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OF SMALL FOLDS IN DRAPERIES.

How figures dressed in a cloak should not show the shape so much as that

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