03-31-2002, 09:25 PM
|
#1
|
|
FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
|
Origin of the word "easel"
Dutch artists used the word "ezel" to describe the wooden frame they used to hold a canvas while they were working on it. The term literally means "DONKEY," the allusion being to a beast of burden carrying a load.
The word was used in the same way that the English later used "horse" to denote 'a supportive wooden frame,' i.e., in the compound "clothes-horse."
The word EASEL was borrowed into English in the first half of the seventeenth century.
|
|
|
|