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ing, deeper shadows are produced by repetitions, and finally finished by broad and narrow hatchelling in imitation of engraving. For painting miniatures or small portraits, provide yourself with a desk so proportioned as to bring your picture opposite to your face, which will prevent the disagreeable and unhealthy practice of stooping over your work; place your ivory or paper on your desk, having by you a black lead pencil, and India rubber to obliterate in case of mistake; place your subject at the distance of one yard and an half from you, suffering but one light to enter the room, which should be as high as the window will admit, by darkening the lower part with a green or black curtain, in order to throw the light in such a direction as to give pleasing shadows on the face. The person must set still till the artist has got a correct drawing of the contour and features. Commence by drawing the off eye, or at least deciding its bigness, for a point to start from; then, taking due notice what distance the brow is from the eye, when done, make the brow, attending strictly to the perspective of the features and retiring parts of the face. From the brow, come down lightly with the line of the nose, noticing how it bears on the cheek, and its length and termination. Then closely notice the bottom of the nose, and draw the nostril. Then see how the corner of the mouth bears under the corner of the eye which you have drawn, and what distance the mouth is from the bottom of the nose. Then notice the distance the other corner of the mouth bears from the nostril. Then draw the other eye; and be particular with regard to its situation, and its distance from the off eye. Its distance is the length of an eye; and it will be a little higher, according to the rules of perspective. Then draw the brow agreeably to it. Then you may sketch the roots of the hair, which will give you the height of the forehead. Then place your eyes sharply upon the crown of the head, sweeping the oval or contour, taking due notice how this contour bears with the features, terminating with the chin. You must now notice the place of the ear, and draw and finish it agreeably to nature. The body is to be drawn in a similar manner, by squares, points, and distances.