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SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft,
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Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-
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hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)  , a rough or hasty preliminary outline or draft serving as a
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note or material for a finished
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work . Though used of
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literary
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composition, as for a
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short slightly constructed
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play, or of a rapid delineation in words of an event or
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character, the
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term is chiefly used of the putting on
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paper or other material of the immediate impression of an
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object, figure, landscape, &c., by an artist, or of an artist's first
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idea or conception of a work whether in
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painting or
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sculpture .

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