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This is another in a beginning series on superior draftsmanship in rendering technical, physical and biological objects. The image–boilers for the RoyalMail Steamshp Roslin Castle, published in The Engineer on 30 November 1880–is a very contained complexity, beautifully shadowed. [The original is available for purchase at the blog bookstore.]
Which is a detail from this:
And from which also comes this detail:
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