graticulate frame

drawing
Also known as: graticule grid

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  • Berthe Morisot: The Artist's Sister, Edma, with Her Daughter, Jeanne
    In drawing: Mechanical devices

    For perspectively correct rendition, the graticulate frame, marked off in squares to facilitate proportionate enlargement or reduction, allowed the object to be drawn to be viewed in line with a screen on the drawing surface. Fixed points can be marked with relative ease on the resultant system of coordinates. For…

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