A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.66
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.66
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was all done by the Indian artists with fine squirrel-hair brushes, the most delicate strokes being executed with a brush of a single hair, an instrument requiring the utmost correctness of eye and steadiness of hand. The collections in London contain many examples of unfinished drawings and paintings, which, if examined critically by experts, would reveal fully the Indian methods of work, and show how far they agreed with or differed from the Persian methods described by M. Blochet.¹