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Technical Drawing--Superb Shadowing of Boilers, 1880

ITEM: Engraving of boilers for the Royal Mail Steamshp Roslin Castle, published in The Engineer on 30 November 1880. 15x10 inches. SOLD

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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 Royal Mail 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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