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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.

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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. 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:
1820
Physical Description:
16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

4. 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.

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

5. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

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

6. Process of sketching a landscape.

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

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

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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

8. 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:
1815
Physical Description:
16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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 ...

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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

10. [Landscape views].

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

11. 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.

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

12. 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.

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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

13. Bacon's "Excelsior" drawing cards : freehand for Standards VI-VIII / by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman ...

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Creator:
Steeley, Frank
Date:
[1893?]
Physical Description:
36 cards : illustrations ; each 19 x 14 cm, in slipcase 20 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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.

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

15. 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.

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