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On various helps in preparing a picture.

A METHOD OF DRAWING AN OBJECT IN RELIEF AT NIGHT.

Place a sheet of not too transparent paper between the relievo and the light and you can draw thus very well.

[Footnote: Bodies thus illuminated will show on the surface of the paper how the copyist has to distribute light and shade.]

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

523 * 525
VII * X
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