(Fr. dessin, from Lat. designo), a scheme or plan; purpose, intention; a representation of a thing by an outline or sketch; &c.

the manufactories, expresses the figures with which the workman enriches his stuff or silk, and which he copies after some pattern.

Painting, is the first idea of a large work, drawn roughly; to be afterwards carefully executed and finished. See DRAWING, and PERSPECTIVE.

Design, Schools of, are establishments for instructing pupils in the art of drawing. In some the instruction is confined to what is subservient to the fine arts; but in others, especially in the very admirable establishment at Edinburgh, under the Board of Trustees of Arts and Manufactures, not only is attention paid to the instruction of the painter and the sculptor, but design is taught, to perfect the mechanic in the principles of his art, wherever ornamental pattern is required. Such schools have been long opened in France, and various parts of Germany, from which important benefit has been conferred on the manufacturing industry of those countries. The Edinburgh School of Design appears to have been the first established in Britain for the express improvement of manufacturing industry. It is most ably conducted, and has found its pupils in demand for the chief seats of English manufacturing art. In England, besides the establishment at Somerset House, London, there is a branch school of design in Spitalfields that is well attended. Similar schools are now established in Birmingham, Manchester, Coventry, Nottingham, Leeds, York, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Norwich, Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Hanley, Glasgow, and Paisley.

Music, is defined by Rousseau to be the invention and the conduct of the subject, the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

It is not sufficient to form beautiful airs and a legitimate harmony; all these must be connected by a principal subject, to which the various parts of the work relate, and by which they become one. Thus unity ought to prevail in the air, in the movement, in the character, in the harmony, and in the modulation; and all these must indispensably relate to one common idea which unites them.