Exhibition HistoryThe Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth
approximately 1798-1799
2
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
The analysis of beauty
1753
3
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Rules for drawing caricaturas
1788
4
Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
An introduction to the general art of drawing,
1674
5
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy
[177-?]
6
Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
A collection of landskips, and figures, &c.
January 12, 1773
7
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
A method to learn to design the passions
1734
8
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Bowles's polite recreation in drawing
[1779]
9
Hipwell, John
The elements of navigation
1759
10
Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints
[1698]
11
Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Essays on physiognomy
MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCVIII [1789-1798, i.e. 1799]
12
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Remarks on rural scenery
1797
13
Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Perspective practical
1698
14
Introduction to drawing ships
[1788]
15
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
An essay on design
1749
16
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Bowles's Passions of the soul
[1800?]
17
Austin, William, 1721–1820
A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil
1781
18
Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
The practice of perspective
1743
19
Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Flower painting made easy
[1760?]
20
The excellency of the pen and pencil,
1688
21
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Observations on the river Wye,
1792
22
Orme's Pocket sketch book
[1799]
23
The florist
[ca. 1760]
24
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Lessons for beginners in the fine art
[1796]
25
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665–1745
An essay on the theory of painting
1715
26
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The museum of arts
1745?]
27
Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc.
1751
28
A new drawing-book of out-lines &c. : very proper for the first-practice of all who are willing to excell in that noble-art =
1722
29
A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione
[176-?]
30
Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical
1712
31
[Flower groups]
[1798]
32
Russell, John, 1745–1806
Elements of painting with crayons
MDCCLXXII [1772]
33
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801
A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice;
1776
34
Junius, Franciscus, 1589–1677
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
1638
35
Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810
The triumph of painting
[1794]
36
The student's treasure
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
37
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape
1793
38
Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ..
1753
39
The principles of drawing, design, and engraving;
1800
40
Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
An introduction to the art of drawing,
[17--]
41
A curious collection of beasts, horses, and birds
[ca. 1750]
42
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art