Distant Reader - subject-drawing-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 6 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 160,792 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 26,798 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 97. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

may, must, will, colour, colours, make, take, water, one, white, first, little, haue, draw, well, light, like, face, shall, part, ground, hand, let, work, blew, vpon, put, red, good, use, lay, many, black, drawing, much, manner, picture, also, lead, art, done, head, shadow, eye, made, gold, lake, two, best, side

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A book of dravving, limning, vvashing or colouring of maps and prints: and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers. Or, The young-mans time well spent. In which, he hath the ground-work to make him fit for doing anything by hand, when he is able to draw well. By the use of this work, you may draw all parts of a man, leggs, armes, hands and feet, severally, and together. And directions for birds, beasts, landskips, ships, and the like. Moreover, you may learn by this tract, to make all sorts of colours; and to grinde and lay them: and to make colours out of colours: and to make gold and silver to write with. How also to diaper and shadow things, and to heighthen them, to stand off: to deepen them, and make them glitter. In this book you have the necessary instruments for drawing, and the use of them, and how to make artificiall pastels to draw withall. Very usefull for all handicrafts, and ingenuous gentlemen and youths. By hammer and hand all arts doe stand., The Excellency of the pen and pencil exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures, also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ..., and Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq;.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

aqua fortis, page sect, will make, fair water, may make, right hand, red lead, english books, early english, one part, white lead, many times, shall see, haue beene, books online, blew verditer, one way, left hand, may use, one side, third part, may see, haue done, shall haue, faire water, must take, gumme water, will find, liquid gold, will serve, blew bice, gumme lake, gum water, page chap, clean water, one hand, vpon glasse, make use, nothing else, page images, will shew, one colour, haue seene, english oker, every thing, deep enough, will haue, text creation, two parts, little white

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq; The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ..., and The Excellency of the pen and pencil exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures, also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ....

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

white, water, colour, chap, vpon, time, tcp, shadow, sea, picture, light, lake, haue, gum, ground, great, good, face, colours, ceruse, wax, vse, sunne, sun, sect, red, prints, plate, piece, pensill, pencil, painting, painter, oyl, nature, master, manner, man, lion, life, lead, latine, landskip, lady, head, hath, hand, grind, greeke, graver

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be colour, and The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ... is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

water, colours, colour, part, face, hand, light, manner, picture, ground, side, art, work, gold, time, body, lead, way, eye, things, head, shadows, thing, places, sect, parts, lines, place, proportion, use, others, page, life, man, line, nature, painting, shadow, sight, fire, faire, times, drawing, stone, ▪, reason, shell, eyes, figure, end

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, make, take, have, being, draw, was, let, put, lay, done, made, were, see, do, called, haue, set, drawing, according, use, had, grind, observe, come, temper, stand, shadow, said, say, blew, having, work, find, making, begin, used, shew, hath, been, know, laid, 〈, fall, burnt, note, wash, vpon

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

〉, ◊, 〈, ●, colour, white, lake, c., colours, haue, chap, red, plate, gum, blew, hath, glasse, english, oyl, painting, landskip, ground, head, indico, oker, aqua, umber, black, nose, eye, ceruse, tcp, life, water, sea, master, lead, sun, nature, graver, latine, cosm, bise, pen, eud, green, man, book, wax, pencil

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, you, your, i, his, them, their, they, her, he, we, our, my, him, me, she, its, themselves, us, thy, himself, one, vp, vnto, thee, ours, ye, vvhat, theirs, ●, yf, vvith, s, oit, mine, itself, indiffernt, hers, hee

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, little, white, same, good, many, first, such, great, more, best, much, fine, red, excellent, black, small, fair, true, most, right, second, whole, green, like, clean, old, full, light, perfect, own, third, next, dry, long, several, ordinary, proper, necessary, large, smooth, thick, strong, high, blew, hard, greater, former, dark, better

not, then, so, very, well, out, as, also, more, most, off, first, together, too, now, only, thus, up, therefore, somewhat, before, over, away, onely, much, in, all, rather, thereof, else, yet, there, never, again, otherwise, enough, exactly, commonly, therein, here, even, down, on, often, that, is, sometimes, forth, easily, quite

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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