Notebook

Notebook, 1993-

MATERIALS & METHODS

Drawing

Pantograph


An instrument, known since the 17th cent., for copying a drawing on a larger or smaller scale. By a simple system of levers the outline of the original work traced with a point attached to one arm can be repeated on to another surface by a drawing instrument attached to another arm. [Chilvers, Ian, Harold Osborne, and Dennis Farr, eds. Oxford Dictionary Of Art. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.]




















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