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On various helps in preparing a picture.

OF DRAWING AN OBJECT.

When you draw take care to set up a principal line which you must observe all throughout the object you are drawing; every thing should bear relation to the direction of this principal line.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

521 * 523
VII * X
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