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Definition of Easel
1. Noun. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
Definition of Easel
1. n. A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
Definition of Easel
1. Noun. An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist’s canvas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Easel
1. a three-legged frame [n -S] : EASELED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Easel
Literary usage of Easel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Painting by Karl Woermann (1885)
"... and London—Filippino I.ippi—Work in the Brancacci Chapel—easel pictures ...
the Sistine Chapel—In Florence and San Gimignano—easel pictures—Altar-piece ..."
2. Ideals in Art: Papers--theoretical--practical--critical by Walter Crane (1905)
"Of course, everything depends upon the point of view of the painter, in the first
place, and in the present age the easel picture has been a favourite ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Other excellent easel- pictures are in the Schack gallery at Munich. In his
oil-paintings, however, the harmonious combination of the parts with the whole ..."
4. The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly (1869)
"KENDALL'S BOOK-easel. rI "'HE accompanying wood-cut represents a book-rest ...
In the matter of portability, Kendall's easel is entirely satisfactory. ..."
5. Giotto and Some of His Followers by Osvald Sirén (1917)
"g easel PICTURES ... easel pictures is the large Madonna (Pl. 206) now in the
New York Historical Society's collection (formerly in the Artaud de Montor and ..."
6. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1907)
"Wooden Reading easel (Section 163). which renders calculation unnecessary.
It is wise, however, to avoid a very wide arm chair, and to use small chairs only ..."
7. Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with His by George Catlin (1848)
"THE commencement of this chapter finds me at my easel, in a comfortable atelier
in my own apartments in Paris, where I had retired, with my little children ..."
8. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"... has set up no full-length portrait on the literary easel, to be painted by
the aid of documents, and with a certain preconceived conception of pictorial ..."
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