Technical Drawing--Superb Shadowing, Steamship Boilers, 1880.

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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: