Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Image Available: Unavailable / Subject Terms: Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

1. An illustrated lecture on sketching from nature in pencil and water colour : with hints on light and shadow, on a method of study, etc., to be practically illustrated, when possible, by a series of lessons out of doors / by George Stubbs, of Alexander Square, Brompton ; with seventeen plates in tinted and chromo-lithography.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: [between 1862 and 1868]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Physical Description:: [6], 67, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Rudiments of drawing, shadowing, and colouring flowers in water colours : contained in thirty-six instructive lessons, illustrated by twenty-nine plates from the outline of a single leaf progressively to the completion of a fine group : intended for beginners and students of this delightful art : with a description of colours used & the method of mixing them.

Date:: 1818 [i.e. 1817]
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., [1], 29 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 38 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An introduction to the general art of drawing, wherein is set forth the grounds and properties, which of this infallible and judicious art are necessary to be known and understood ... with an illustration of 25 copper prints ... Likewise, An excellent treatise of the art of limning in which the true grounds and the perfect use of water-colours ... are ... taught. Formerly set out by ... Gerhard of Brugge. And now much augmented and amended, with some observations, touching ... the colouring and painting with water-colours. Truly tr. into English by J. L.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Landscape views].

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching ; 17 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: ii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Introductory lessons with familiar examples in landscape : for the use of those who are desirous of gaining some knowledge of the pleasing art of painting in water colours : to which are added some clear and simple rules, exemplified by suitable sketches and more finished painting : as this work is chiefly intended for the mere beginner, the rules are both familiar and progressive : to which are added, instructions for executing transparencies, in a style both novel and easy / by James Roberts.

Creator:: Roberts, James, 1753–approximately 1809
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A.
Date:: [between 1906 and 1916]
Physical Description:: 60, 64 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. M. Stanley's drawing book.

Creator:: Stanley, Montague, 1809–1844
Date:: [1841?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all illustrations ; 26 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: [between 1726 and 1736]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

Creator:: Dighton, Denis, 1792–1827
Date:: May, 1820
Physical Description:: [6] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 31 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An introduction to perspective, drawing, and painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : illustrated by appropriate plates and diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry, and a compendium of genuine instruction, comprising a progressive and complete body of information, carefully adapted for the instruction of females, and suited equally to the simplicity of youth and mental maturity / by Mr. Hayter, portrait painter, in miniature and crayons, and teacher of the principal elements of the art.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 197, [3] p., [xvii] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 38 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The young colorist.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1808-1811
Physical Description:: 4 v. plates 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. An introduction to perspective, adapted to the capacities of youth, in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues, between the author's children : accompanied with illustrative plates, appropriate diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry : to which is added, A compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting : the whole comprising a body of information, adapted equally to the simplicity of youth, and to mental maturity ... / by Mr. Hayter ...

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: viii, 168 p., [1], XIV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [177-?]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours : exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner, including the elements of perspective, their application in sketching from nature and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the outline a finished picture, with observations on the study of nature and various other matters relative to the arts / by Francis Nicholson.

Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 91 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

Creator:: Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Etchings of rustic figures : for the embellishment of landscape / by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 40 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1812
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

Creator:: Blunt, Charles
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [4], 91, [1] p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A compendium of the theory and practice of drawing and painting : illustrated by the technical terms in art : with practical observations on the essential lines and the forms connected with them : adapted to the earliest state of instruction for the use of school or private tuition : to which is added, the practice of the pencil, chalk, tinted, and water-colour drawing / by R. Dagley ; author of "Select gems from the antique".

Creator:: Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvi, 79 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808–1889
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

Creator:: Varley, John, 1778–1842
Date:: 1818]
Physical Description:: [2] double plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

Date:: [between 1782 and 1807]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 92 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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.

Date:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 18, 16, 8, 14, [2] p., 16, 16, 16, 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. [Drawing book of trees]

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1821.]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 4 prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks approximately 21 x 29 cm, on sheets 25 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Introduction to drawing ships.

Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. An epitome of perspective / by John Wells, drawing master to the school of Christ's Hopsital.

Creator:: Wells, John, 1757 or 1758–1843
Date:: 1817]
Physical Description:: [2], 10 leaves : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

Creator:: Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773–1845
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

Creator:: Milbourne, Henry, 1781–ca. 1826
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

Creator:: Chalon, Henry Bernard, 1770–1849
Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 x 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Footsteps to drawing, according to the rules of perspective : explained in familiar dialogues, for the use of children and young persons, and illustrated by a series of progressive lessons in twenty plates of examples, calculated to combine a knowledge of perspective with the practice of drawing, and to lead the beginner imperceptibly to an acquaintance with the principal rules of that useful art. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., lecturer on perspective, &c.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4], 12 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Date:: [1808?]
Physical Description:: 67, 16 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

Creator:: Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: [8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

Creator:: Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:: MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:: [16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

Creator:: Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: [1698]
Physical Description:: [3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The art of landscape drawing made easy : by specimens in the rual stile, intended for the use of those who wish to excell in that noble art : recommended to the use of schools.

Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., author of Lectures on perspective, delivered at the Royal Institution in the years 1807, 1808, and 1809 ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

Creator:: Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. A new drawing book of modes / by B. Picart.

Creator:: Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:: [1733?]
Physical Description:: 13 leaves : all ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The English academy : a drawing book containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies : with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning ... / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

Creator:: P. L
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:: 1634
Physical Description:: [8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

Creator:: Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620–1683
Date:: [ca. 1790]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

Date:: [approximately 1730]
Physical Description:: 11 leaves : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Marine sketches / drawn on stone by S. Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Book of landscapes after Payne.

Creator:: Payne, William, active 1776–1809
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The amateur's portfolio, or, The new drawing magazine : being a selection of lessons calculated to make the art of drawing easy, and founded upon the principles of geometry and practical perspective / by James Merigot.

Creator:: Merigot, James
Date:: 1815-1816
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:: 1797-1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

74. The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the young of both sexes, or, A complete body of the polite and useful arts : ... Comprising ... I. The art of designing : II. Complete compendium of colours : III. Painting in miniature, or water colours : IV. Painting in oil colours: V. Painting in crayons : illustrated with 72 copper plate cuts ...

Date:: [1785?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 43 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721–1820
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 6, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Short and plain principles of linear perspective, adapted to naval architecture : containing rules to draw correctly the forms of ships in every possible position : the whole being rendered so clear that a complete knowledge of the art may be soon and easily attained : illustrated with five copper plates / by A. Cobin.

Creator:: Cobin, A
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8], 6, [3] p., V folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The illustrated drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans ... / by Robert Scott Burn ...

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: vii, [8]-143 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

Creator:: Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: 20 p., [12] leaves of plates. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. 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 = Nouveau livres pour apprendre les premiers principes du dessein : tres-utile à ceux qui souhaitent d'exceller dans ce bel art.

Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm. x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the Learner the various gradation through which a drawing passes from the outline to its finished state : this work, consisting of fourteen tinted lessons, imitative of the original drawings which were made for the purpose of it by John Laporte ...

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1811]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [1], 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

Creator:: Russell, John, 1745–1806
Date:: MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:: [8], 46 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

Creator:: Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [16] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A familiar treatise on perspective : designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry : whereby, in a few days, sufficient of this useful science may be learned, to enable any person, accumstomed to the use of the pencil, to draw landscapes, and the simpler objects of art : with perspective accuracy / by W. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 43, [1] p., 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the reader the various gradation through which a drawing passes : from the outline to the finished state : the intention of this little work is to enable young people, where an eminent Master cannot be had, to cultivate the delightful art of drawing in colours with system and advantage.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1807?]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The first booke of drawing & limning.

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:: circa 1700?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (5-129, [1] leaves) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

Creator:: Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Bowles's new preceptor in drawing ... Being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... On sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Designed chiefly for young beginners ... To which is prefixed, An introduction to drawing ... Translated from the French of monsieur Gerard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c.

Date:: [ca. 1799]
Physical Description:: 20 p. 62 plates on 42 leaves. 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The Art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... With instructions for making transparent colours of every sort; partly from some curious personages in Holland, France, and Italy; but chiefly from a manuscript of the great Mr. Boyle ...

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 64 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Grammigraphia; or, The grammar of drawing: a system of appearance, which, by easy rules, communicates its principles, and shews how it is to be presented by lines ... by William Robson ...

Creator:: Robson, William
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 150 p. incl. ill., 2 fold. plates. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in every thing that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in everything that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. IV fold. plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

Creator:: Brown, Richard, architect
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 ., [vii]-xii, 52 p. 25 plates (part col.) 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A familiar treatise on perspective, designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry ... By W. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 46 p. 16 plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... also the art of etching, and that of japanning ... to which is added, a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 376 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

100. Bits for beginners / by Samuel Prout ; 21 plates with 100 studies of rustic scenery, picturesque old houses, cottages, ruins, castles, churches, porches, archways, bridges, waterfalls, etc.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [2] p., 24 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

4. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

6. [Landscape views].

7. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

8. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

10. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

11. Process of sketching a landscape.

12. M. Stanley's drawing book.

14. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

15. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

16. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

17. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

19. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

20. Process of sketching a landscape.

21. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

22. The young colorist.

23. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

27. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

28. Etchings of rustic figures : for the embellishment of landscape / by W.H. Pyne.

29. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

30. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

31. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

32. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

35. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

36. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

37. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

39. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

41. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

42. [Drawing book of trees]

43. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

44. Introduction to drawing ships.

45. An epitome of perspective / by John Wells, drawing master to the school of Christ's Hopsital.

46. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

47. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

48. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

49. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

51. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

52. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

54. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

55. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

57. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

58. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

59. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

60. The art of landscape drawing made easy : by specimens in the rual stile, intended for the use of those who wish to excell in that noble art : recommended to the use of schools.

61. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

63. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

64. A new drawing book of modes / by B. Picart.

67. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

68. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

69. Marine sketches / drawn on stone by S. Prout.

70. Book of landscapes after Payne.

71. The amateur's portfolio, or, The new drawing magazine : being a selection of lessons calculated to make the art of drawing easy, and founded upon the principles of geometry and practical perspective / by James Merigot.

72. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

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

75. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

76. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

78. The illustrated drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans ... / by Robert Scott Burn ...

79. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

80. 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 = Nouveau livres pour apprendre les premiers principes du dessein : tres-utile à ceux qui souhaitent d'exceller dans ce bel art.

82. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

83. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

86. The first booke of drawing & limning.

87. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

91. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

92. Grammigraphia; or, The grammar of drawing: a system of appearance, which, by easy rules, communicates its principles, and shews how it is to be presented by lines ... by William Robson ...

93. The art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in every thing that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

94. The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in everything that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

95. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

96. A familiar treatise on perspective, designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry ... By W. Daniel.

97. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... also the art of etching, and that of japanning ... to which is added, a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

98. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

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

100. Bits for beginners / by Samuel Prout ; 21 plates with 100 studies of rustic scenery, picturesque old houses, cottages, ruins, castles, churches, porches, archways, bridges, waterfalls, etc.