Drawing. [App. ad. F. estomper, related to estompe STUMP sb.2 Cf. the following:
1802. C. James, Milit. Dict., Stomper, Fr. To sketch out a design, or to draw with colours that have been pounded into dust. Instead of the pencil or crayon, a roll of paper which is dipped into the coloured dust, serves to put on the different colours.]
trans. To tone or treat with a ‘stump.’
1807. J. Landseer, Lect. Engraving, 125. Ryland … employed it [the chalk manner] so as rather to imitate such drawings as are done with crayons, or stumped, than such as are hatched with chalk.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Elsie Venner, vii. (1887), 77. This must refer to her favorite monochrome, executed by laying on heavy shadows, and stumping them down into mellow harmony.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., IX. 56. His notion of the Mother-Maid: Methinks I see it, chalk, a little stumped!
absol. 1820. C. Hayter, Introd. Perspective, 169. I pay great attention to the model while stumping, so as to preserve all the lights.
