Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Subject Terms: Drawing -- Technique.

201. The artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching in copper and steel, engraving, metzotinto scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... : containing the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts : methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners : illustrated with suitable examples, engraved on copper.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 48 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

202. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: iv, 80 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

203. 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

204. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [2], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

205. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: [4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

206. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

207. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

Creator:: Powell, Joseph, 1780–1834
Date:: 1820-1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : all illustrations ; 23 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

208. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [4] p., plates 25-36 : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

209. 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

210. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

Creator:: Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
Date:: 1712
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 173 p., 6 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

211. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

Creator:: Orme, William, active 1797–1819
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [2], [19], [2], 3 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

212. 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:: 1762
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

213. 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

214. 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

215. 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

216. 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

217. Orme's New sketch book.

Date:: [1801?]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

218. 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

219. Mellin's food for infants & invalids.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 15 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

220. 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

221. 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

222. The art of drawing without a master / from Mons. Le Clerc.

Date:: [ca. 1840?]
Physical Description:: [19] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

223. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

224. 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 ... : to which is added the practice of the pencil, chalk, tinted and water-colour drawing / by R. Dagley ...

Creator:: Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 79 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

225. Drawing book of landscapes, shipping & animals : from designs by Westall, Girtin, Smith, Marlow, Wheatly, Ibbotson, Hill, Anderson / etched by W.P. Sherlock.

Creator:: Sherlock, William P., 1775–
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [3] parts, [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

226. 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. ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1813-[1815]
Physical Description:: 4 pt. (18, 16, 8, 14 p., 16, 16, 16, 16, leaves of plates) : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

227. 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

228. 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:: 1803
Physical Description:: [2], vii, [1], [9]-125 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

229. 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.

Date:: [between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

230. Rudiments of landscape drawing : in a series of easy examples / by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [2], 22 p., 13, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

231. A variety of tame & wild animals : studies from nature selected & arranged for the use and approbation of the young practitioner, the professor and the lover of design / by M.F. Quadal.

Creator:: Quadal, Martin Ferdinand, 1736–1808
Date:: May 25, 1793
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 31 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

232. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1795-1798
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

233. Laporte's Sketch book.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [26] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

234. 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 desigining ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of three copper-plates.

Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: [4], 32, [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

235. Artistic and picturesque groups for the embellishment of landscape : in a series of about one thousand subjects : comprising the most interesting accessories to rural and domestic scenery; shipping and craft; rural sports, pastimes and occupations; naval, military and civil employments; implements of trade, commerce and agriculture; etc. : the whole forming an excyclopaedia of illustration of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c., of Great Britain / accurately drawn from nature, and etched by W.H. Pyne ; and aquatinted by J. Hill.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [83] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

236. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: 22 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

237. The complete guide to the fine arts : containing instructions in the art of drawing, oil colour painting, water colour painting, perspective, flower painting, miniature painting, oriental tinting, crayon painting, lithographic drawing, engraving on wood and copper, sketching from nature, etc., etc., valuable recipes, etc.

Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [6], 208 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

238. A practical treatise of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor / by Edward Edwards, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy.

Creator:: Edwards, Edward, 1738–1806
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: xii, 316, [2] p., [1], XL leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

239. The speculum, or, Art of drawing in water colours : and instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of a water-coloured drawing, familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive stages : with directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, etc. / by J.Hassell.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 56 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

240. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, Elias
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: viii, 74, [2] p., 25 leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

241. The young artists assistant, or, A familiar introduction to the art of drawing, with instructions for colouring &c. / By J. Hassell, drawing master ; iIllustrated by plates displaying the first principles of the art, and a series of the passions, as expressed by the celebrated Le Brun.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: viii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

242. Rowlandson's world in miniature : consisting of groups of figures for the illustration of landscape scenery / drawn and etched by T. Rowlandson.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [40] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

243. What to sketch with, or, Hints on the use of coloured crayons, water colours, oil colours, black and white chalks, black-lead pencil : and the author's new method of preserving the light with composition / by Newton Fielding, formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 48 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

244. The student's treasure : a new drawing book, consisting in a variety of etchings and engravings executed by Irish artists, after the following great masters, viz : Angelica, Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Wheatly, Vivaries, West, Bertrand, Rowlandson, Stubbs, Zucchi, Mortimer, Howit, Gilray, Boucher, Gainsborough, &c. &c.

Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 8, [2] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

245. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 24 p., VIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

246. Fores's new chalk drawing-book, of heads and academy figures / from original drawings by C.M. Metz ; engraved in exact imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Metz, C. M. (Conrad Martin), 1755–1827
Date:: 1795-1799
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 29 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

247. Tracing aid.

Date:: early 20th century?
Physical Description:: 1 item ; 18 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

248. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

Creator:: Walton, John
Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 24 col. plates. 26 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

249. The artist's assistant in drawing, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, and on silks, satins, &c. : containing the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts / methodically digested and adapted to the capacities of young beginners by the late Robert Laurie ...

Creator:: Laurie, Robert, 1755?-1836
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: vi, [7]-34 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

250. Progressive fragments : drawn and etched in a broad and simple manner : with a comprehensive explanation of the principles of perspective for the use of young students in landscape-drawing / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [2], 2 p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

251. 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

252. The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing : and the theory and practice of perspective in a series of letters containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure with a new method of practical perspective detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style for the use of teachers, or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; teacher of drawing and perspective, and lithographist to the University of Oxford embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings, from real views, taken expressly for this work.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: vi, 159, [3] p., cv [i.e. 107] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

253. 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

254. The compleat drawing-master : containing many curious specimens : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, buildings &c. neatly engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of the great masters : wherein the principles of drawing are laid down after a natural and easy manner : to which is prefixed some general instructions to form the judgement of young beginners : by which the useful art can be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 21 p., [102] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

255. A treatise on painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; faithfully translated from the original Italian, and now first digested under proper heads, by John Francis Rigaud, Esq. ; Academician of The Royal Academy of Painting at London, and also of The Academia Clementina at Bologna, and The Royal Academy at Stockholm ; illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates, and other figures ; to which is prefixed a new life of the author, drawn up from authentic materials till now inaccessible, by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.S.

Creator:: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: [2], xcv, [1], 236 p., 22 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., diagrs., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

256. 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 ... : to which are annexed, Familiar direction, whereby a stranger in the Art of drawing maybe readily taught to delineate any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... : with instructions for preparing, mixing, and managing all sorts of water-colours used in painting.

Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: 96 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

257. The guide and companion to the "Lessons on art" / by J. D. Harding ; author of "The principles and practice of art;" "Elementary art, or The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained;" "Lessons on art;" "Lessons on trees;" &c. &c.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1854]
Physical Description:: vi, 178 p.,14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

258. Vandenburgh's drawing book and young artists' preceptor : for teaching every branch of the art without the aid of a master : consisting of one hundred and seventy-nine graphic illustrations, and one hundred and forty- two pages of letterpress instructions ...

Date:: [ca. 184-]
Physical Description:: [1], 2, 136, iv p., [179] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

259. [Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures].

Creator:: Purcell, Edward, fl. 1812–1831
Date:: [ca. 1829?]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

260. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

Creator:: La Cave, P. (Peter)
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: v. : all ill. ; 29 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

261. 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.

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

262. Graphice : the use of the pen and pensil, or, The most excellent art of painting : in two parts / by William Sanderson.

Creator:: Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: [16], 87 p., [3] leaves of plates : ports ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

264. Fifty plates of green-house plants, drawn and coloured from nature : with concise descriptions, and rules for their culture. Intended also for the improvement of young ladies in the art of drawing / by Henrietta Maria Moriarty.

Creator:: Moriarty, Henrietta Maria
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xii p., 50 leaves, [4] p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

265. Rukovodstvo kʺ risovanīi︠u︡ akvarelʹi︠u︡ ili vodi︠a︡nymi kraskami bezʺ pomoshchi uchiteli︠a︡ / sostavilʺ A.M. ; sʺ 9-i︠u︡ raskrashennymi tablit︠s︡ami.

Creator:: Maslov, Aleksandr
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: [4], IV, [2], 132 pages, [4], 5 leaves of plates ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

266. The elements of drawing in all its branches.

Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: 1 p.., iii, 71 p. plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

267. 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:: [1804]
Physical Description:: 67 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

268. A practical treatise on composition, light and shade, and colour / by Harry Willson ; author of Fugitive sketches in Rome, Venice, &c.

Creator:: Willson, Harry, 19th cent
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: 81 p., [1], [xi] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

269. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

Creator:: Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [18] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

270. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1836?]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [1], plates 37-48 plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

271. 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

272. 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.

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

273. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 54 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

274. Elements of drawing and flower painting : in opaque and transparent water-colours / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins ; honored by the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Creator:: Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: xvi, 50, [6] pages, [15] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

275. 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:: 1766
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

276. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [ca. 1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leavesof plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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202. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

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

204. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

205. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

206. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

207. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

208. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

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

210. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

211. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

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

215. 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.

217. Orme's New sketch book.

218. 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.

219. Mellin's food for infants & invalids.

220. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

221. 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.

222. The art of drawing without a master / from Mons. Le Clerc.

223. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

225. Drawing book of landscapes, shipping & animals : from designs by Westall, Girtin, Smith, Marlow, Wheatly, Ibbotson, Hill, Anderson / etched by W.P. Sherlock.

226. 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. ...

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

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

230. Rudiments of landscape drawing : in a series of easy examples / by W.H. Pyne.

231. A variety of tame & wild animals : studies from nature selected & arranged for the use and approbation of the young practitioner, the professor and the lover of design / by M.F. Quadal.

232. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

233. Laporte's Sketch book.

234. 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 desigining ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of three copper-plates.

236. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

238. A practical treatise of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor / by Edward Edwards, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy.

240. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

241. The young artists assistant, or, A familiar introduction to the art of drawing, with instructions for colouring &c. / By J. Hassell, drawing master ; iIllustrated by plates displaying the first principles of the art, and a series of the passions, as expressed by the celebrated Le Brun.

242. Rowlandson's world in miniature : consisting of groups of figures for the illustration of landscape scenery / drawn and etched by T. Rowlandson.

245. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

246. Fores's new chalk drawing-book, of heads and academy figures / from original drawings by C.M. Metz ; engraved in exact imitation of chalk.

247. Tracing aid.

248. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

250. Progressive fragments : drawn and etched in a broad and simple manner : with a comprehensive explanation of the principles of perspective for the use of young students in landscape-drawing / by Samuel Prout.

251. 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.

253. 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 ...

257. The guide and companion to the "Lessons on art" / by J. D. Harding ; author of "The principles and practice of art;" "Elementary art, or The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained;" "Lessons on art;" "Lessons on trees;" &c. &c.

258. Vandenburgh's drawing book and young artists' preceptor : for teaching every branch of the art without the aid of a master : consisting of one hundred and seventy-nine graphic illustrations, and one hundred and forty- two pages of letterpress instructions ...

259. [Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures].

260. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

261. 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.

262. Graphice : the use of the pen and pensil, or, The most excellent art of painting : in two parts / by William Sanderson.

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

264. Fifty plates of green-house plants, drawn and coloured from nature : with concise descriptions, and rules for their culture. Intended also for the improvement of young ladies in the art of drawing / by Henrietta Maria Moriarty.

265. Rukovodstvo kʺ risovanīi︠u︡ akvarelʹi︠u︡ ili vodi︠a︡nymi kraskami bezʺ pomoshchi uchiteli︠a︡ / sostavilʺ A.M. ; sʺ 9-i︠u︡ raskrashennymi tablit︠s︡ami.

266. The elements of drawing in all its branches.

267. 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.

268. A practical treatise on composition, light and shade, and colour / by Harry Willson ; author of Fugitive sketches in Rome, Venice, &c.

269. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

270. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

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

273. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding.

274. Elements of drawing and flower painting : in opaque and transparent water-colours / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins ; honored by the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

276. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.