Creator Gender: unknown / Work Type: drawing book / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: Drawing -- Technique.

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. 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

3. 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.

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

4. [Drawing book of wild boars].

Date:: [ca. 1770?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: not before 1825
Physical Description:: 1 volume (24 leaves) ; 29 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

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

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

22. Bacon's Excelsior first grade drawing cards : freehand for standard V / designed by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman.

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

23. Shepherd's portable slate desk.

Creator:: Shepherd, Charles C
Date:: [1877?]
Physical Description:: 1 drawing slate : double sided ; 19 x 27 x 6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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

25. 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

26. Studies from nature : arranged as progressive lessons for instruction in the art of drawing landscape / drawn and engraved by William Orme.

Creator:: Orme, William, active 1797–1819
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [22] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

Creator:: Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Ralph Willett, 1796–1874
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: iv, 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 1853.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. 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

33. Characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laporte.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 43 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. [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

40. A New drawing book.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. 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

42. Book with groups of figures (by Pyne) for decorating landscapes.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. Buchanan's initiatory drawing lessons : for the use of writing academies & private families : engraved series, to be copied with the pen.

Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 4 p., 43 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

Creator:: Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: [11] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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

49. Practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the Rev. Wm. Gilpin ... ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours, by John Heaviside Clark ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [31] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The young colorist.

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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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

58. [Drawing book of trees]

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

59. A drawing book of landscapes.

Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. 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

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. A new book of foliage : for the instruction of young artists / by M. Lock.

Creator:: Lock, Matthias, approximately 1710–1765
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. 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:: 1835
Physical Description:: xvi, [1], 18-66, [6] pages, [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. 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

67. For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. 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

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

76. Principles of perspective : with a sketch of some Irish antiquities : and a few thoughts on rustic embellishment and the picturesque : as connected, and contrasted, with each other.

Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [27], 24-30 pages, [1], 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. 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

78. 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

79. 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

80. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 4 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: 40 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

89. 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

90. L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin ; revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d'après l'antique ; avec leurs mesures & proportions ; d'une description exacte des os & muscles du corps humain, & de leurs offices & usages ; avec une instruction facile pour apprendre à dessiner toutes ces figures, selon les différens aspects qu'elles peuvent avoir.

Creator:: Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522–ca. 1593
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: 72 p. : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

95. 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

96. 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

97. 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

98. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. 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

99. 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

100. 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

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2. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

3. 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.

4. [Drawing book of wild boars].

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

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

15. M. Stanley's drawing book.

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

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

19. 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.

20. 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.

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

22. Bacon's Excelsior first grade drawing cards : freehand for standard V / designed by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman.

23. Shepherd's portable slate desk.

24. Laporte's Sketch book.

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

26. Studies from nature : arranged as progressive lessons for instruction in the art of drawing landscape / drawn and engraved by William Orme.

27. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

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

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

31. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

32. 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.

33. Characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laporte.

34. 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.

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

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

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

39. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

40. A New drawing book.

41. Process of sketching a landscape.

42. Book with groups of figures (by Pyne) for decorating landscapes.

43. 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.

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. Buchanan's initiatory drawing lessons : for the use of writing academies & private families : engraved series, to be copied with the pen.

47. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

48. 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.

50. The young colorist.

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

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

53. Book of landscapes after Payne.

55. 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.

56. The first booke of drawing & limning.

58. [Drawing book of trees]

59. A drawing book of landscapes.

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

64. A new book of foliage : for the instruction of young artists / by M. Lock.

65. 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.

66. 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.

68. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

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

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

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

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

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

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

76. Principles of perspective : with a sketch of some Irish antiquities : and a few thoughts on rustic embellishment and the picturesque : as connected, and contrasted, with each other.

78. 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.

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

80. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

81. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

82. 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.

83. 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.

84. 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.

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

87. 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.

88. 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.

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