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Exhibition History The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)

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201. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

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Date:
[ca. 1760]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

202. The museum of arts: or, The curious repository. By George Bickham, engraver of all sorts of work on copper-plates.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Date:
1745?]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 75 plates (part. col., part double) front. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

203. For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

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Creator:
Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
[3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

204. The painting of the ancients, in three bookes: declaring by historicall observations and examples, the beginning, progresse, and consvmmation of that most noble art. And how those ancient artificers attained to their still so much admired excellencie. Written first in Latine by Franciscus Junius, F. f. and now by him Englished, with some additions and alterations.

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Creator:
Junius, Franciscus, 1589–1677
Date:
1638
Physical Description:
4 p., 355 p. 19 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

205. The triumph of painting.

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Creator:
Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
38 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

206. An essay on the theory of painting. By Mr. Richardson ...

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Creator:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665–1745
Date:
1715
Physical Description:
240 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

207. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

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Date:
1753
Physical Description:
[2] sheets ([2] p.) ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

208. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

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Date:
[176-?]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : all ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

209. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

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Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
[10] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

210. The principles of drawing, design, and engraving; : by rules formed from nature and truth: With the late various improvements, and some new discoveries, never before published; being entirely the result of practical experience and self-observation / By an artist.

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Date:
1800
Physical Description:
24 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

211. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

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Creator:
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 35 plates on 34 leaves. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

212. A curious collection of beasts, horses, and birds : copied from the best masters : very useful to draw after : in four parts.

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Date:
[ca. 1750]
Physical Description:
25 leaves : all ill. ; 22 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

213. The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art : being a compleat drawing book containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips [sic], cattle, building, &c. curiously engraved on copper plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd, an introduction to drawing; containing an account of the instruments and materials used in drawing, and the method of managing them; also instruction to form the judgment of a young beginner, and direct his hand in practice, with early and proper lessons for him at the first entrance : also, early and proper lessons for a young beginner, with instructions to form his judgment and direct his practice / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerard de Lairesse and improved with abstracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

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Creator:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:
[2], 8, [2] p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

214. A new copy-book of the small Italian hand : published for the use of publick and private schools as well as for the use of families / by John Langton, writing master ...

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Creator:
Langton, John, active 1700–1727
Date:
[1727?]
Physical Description:
[4] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

215. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes .../ collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1766
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts