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CARTON

Volume 2 · 55 words · 1771 Edition

or Cartoon, in painting, a design drawn on strong paper, to be afterwards chalked through, and transferred on the fresh plaster of a wall to be painted in fresco.

Carton is also used for a design coloured, for working in mosaic, tapestry, &c. The cartons at Hampton-court are designs of Raphael Urbin, intended for tapestry.