单词 | easel |
释义 | easeln. a. A wooden frame to support a picture while the painter is at work upon it; a similar frame used to support a blackboard, etc. (In quot. 1791 a blunder for palette.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > easel scaffold1601 easel1634 1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 119 Provide a frame or Easel called by Artists. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 193/1 St. Luke, the Patron of Painters..is drawn at his Easle working. 1734 J. Eames in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 196 The Trunk of a Skeleton fix'd to a Painter's Ezel. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 7 Many of the unexpected changes in mixing colours on a painter's easle..may depend on these principles. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 199 The Easel is a frame which supports the painting during its progress. b. as the typical instrument of a painter. ΚΠ 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 307 Some productions of his easel vie with those of Raphael. Compounds easel-picture n. a picture painted at the easel, or small enough to stand upon it. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > of specific size or shape quadrant1651 easel-piece1706 easel-picture1841 micrograph1874 tondo1877 kakemono1890 scroll picture1899 scroll painting1911 machine1926 pata1948 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 396 His easel-pictures are perfect models of colouring. easel-piece n. = easel-picture n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > of specific size or shape quadrant1651 easel-piece1706 easel-picture1841 micrograph1874 tondo1877 kakemono1890 scroll picture1899 scroll painting1911 machine1926 pata1948 1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 348 He continu'd working on his Easel-Pieces. Derivatives ˈeaseldom n. painting as a profession; the whole body of painters.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1860 G. A. Sala Hogarth iv, in Cornhill Mag. May 578 This grandee of easeldom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1634 |
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