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1. Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant : illustrated with nearly sixty well-executed copper plate engravings of the human figure.

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Date:
1824
Physical Description:
77, [3] pages, [50] leaves of plates (in various foliations) : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

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Date:
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description:
36 pt. : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

4. The school perspective : being a progressive course of instruction in Linear Perspective, both theoretical and practical : specially designed for the use of schools / by J.R. Dicksee, principal drawing master to the city of London School, to The Normal College for training teachers of the British and Foreign School Society, &c. ; illustrated with many woodcuts and forty engraved plates.

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Creator:
Dicksee, J. R. (John Robert), 1817–1905
Date:
[1862]
Physical Description:
xiv, 79, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An introduction to perspective, practical geometry, drawing, and painting : a new and perfect explanation of the mixture of colours with full and practical directions for miniature, crayons, and oil painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : and an epistolary instruction to pupils : properly adapted for the instruction of females, and equally for all professional students / by Charles Hayter.

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Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
xxvi, 259 p., [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An introduction to the study of perspective : elucidated by easy and familiar examples in question and answer : so as to enable the student of drawing, to apply the principles of the science with facility, to sketching from nature / by Stephen Humble ; teacher of drawing and painting, Edinburgh ; illustrated with seventeen copperplates.

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Creator:
Humble, Stephen
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
27, [1] p., 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

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Date:
C.I. Hood Co.,
Physical Description:
21 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

8. Mary Leighton collection, 1824-1860.

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Creator:
Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
Date:
1824-1860
Physical Description:
2 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund