British draughtsmen, which is related to a form of letter brought into fashion by the new English school of designers on wood, among whom may be mentioned Mr. William Nicholson and Mr. Gordon Craig, both of whom have done lettering distinguished by its indication of the medium employed. ❋ Frank Chouteau Brown (N/A)
He was in good spirits and obviously happy, and declared that he was doing as well as he could reasonably expect; yet on his discouraged days he admitted that the cost of retaining his draughtsmen was a drain on the profit side of his ledger. ❋ Robert Grant (1896)
If, by "engineers tied up in the A400M" you mean the designers and "draughtsmen", surely they will be made redundant so that EADS can reap the benefits of saving their salaries and other associated costs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On his return, as he writes, he devoted all his energies and time to research and to carrying out his great enterprises in botany; as he stated: "Indeed, for the last ten years my works have obliged me to keep in constant activity a great number of artists, such as draughtsmen, engravers, and printers." [ ❋ Unknown (1872)
"Since my return to France I have worked on the completion of my great botanical enterprises, and indeed for about ten years past my works have obliged me to keep in constant activity a great number of artists, such as draughtsmen, engravers, and printers. ❋ Unknown (1872)
In her lively and informative narrative, Hewitt highlights the Ordnance project's legion of draughtsmen, surveyors, dreamers and eccentrics, and the disagreements that flared among them. ❋ Ian Thomson (2010)
I think the fact of seeing someone who's better draughtsmen than you work over a piece of yours is very instructive, cause for each area that caused you trouble, you see someone get the right thing on it. ❋ James Gurney (2009)
Some of them can be very promising draughtsmen, some of them a bit too precious about there work as S.Weasel said , some of them quite closed to criticism... ❋ James Gurney (2009)
"All good and true draughtsmen draw from the image imprinted on their brains, and not from nature." page 16 ❋ EAGEAGEAG (2009)
Two years later he and his friends were transferred to the Public Works Dept, where they were employed as engineering draughtsmen preparing plans for harbours, jetties and coast works, and by early 1886 they were assistant engineers. ❋ Hels (2009)
[Return to the letter] 4 Franz (1786-1831) and Johannes Riepenhausen (1788-1860), German draughtsmen, engravers and painters. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was precisely the kind of issue at which diplomats and draughtsmen excelled in the final stages of producing an agreement. ❋ Lord Michael Levy (2008)
When Gavarni came to England a few years since — one of the wittiest of men, one of the most brilliant and dexterous of draughtsmen — he published a book of ❋ Unknown (2006)
Without complicating the matter by alluding to David of whose work she knew something, when she was a girl she considered Ingres the most boring of draughtsmen, then suddenly the most beguiling of new masters, so much so that she detested Delacroix. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Names are, no doubt, but whimsical draughtsmen, giving us of people as well as of places sketches so little like the reality that we often experience a kind of stupor when we have before our eyes, in place of the imagined, the visible world ❋ Unknown (2003)
For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Depots would make tools available, give access to draughtsmen, architects, engineers and quantity surveyors, and draw on the productive capacity of local brickmakers, carpenters and other skilled people. ❋ Unknown (1994)
However the deadlocked situation in Working Group II had also removed the need for urgency and draughtsmen of the Government, the ANC, DP and any other party wishing to nominate representatives would now draft a bill to present to the next session of Parliament -- whenever that may turn out to be. ❋ Unknown (1992)
