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Rare Books and Manuscripts 249
Reference Library 1

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Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852 12
Laporte, John, 1761–1839 8
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843 6
Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856 5
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863 4
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860 4
Wood, John George, 1768–1838 4
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815 3
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823 3
Cox, David, 1783–1859 3
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829 3
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804 3
Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825 3
Murray, Henry, F.S.A 3
Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844 3
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 2
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 2
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793 2
Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844 2
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863 2
Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839 2
Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798 2
Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899 2
Orme, William, active 1797–1819 2
Perkins, Elizabeth Steele 2
Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867 2
Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733 2
Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770 2
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 2
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823 2

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Accessible in the Study Room 249
Accessible in the Reference Library 1

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 249

Image Available

unavailable 249

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Books 249

Collective Title

Period

19th century 167
18th century 68
17th century 10
20th century 4

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

drawing book 249

handbooks and manual 58
soft-ground etching 53
aquatint 45
lithograph 29
engraving 28
etching 17
wood engraving 14
publisher's advertisement 9
chromolithograph 8
stipple engraving 6
lithotint 5
manuals (handbooks) 5
publishers' advertisement 5
armorial bookplates (provenance) 4
extra-illustrated copies (provenance) 3
annotations (provenance) 2
woodcut 2
chromoxylograph 1
color wheel 1
juvenile literature 1
landscape print 1
lihography 1
manufacturers' catalog 1
mezzotint 1
miniature books (printing) 1
photomechanical print 1
publishers advertisement 1
steel engraving 1
subscriber's list 1

Genre

Subject Terms

Drawing -- Technique. 152
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 127
Drawing books -- Specimens. 64
Watercolor painting -- Technique. 49
Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 42
Drawing -- Study and teaching. 33
Painting -- Technique. 31
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 28
Landscape drawing -- Technique. 27
Painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 17
Landscape painting -- Technique. 15
Ackermann, R. -- Publisher. 13
Painting -- Study and teaching. 12
Perspective -- Technique. 12
Landscape drawing -- Study and teaching. 10
Anatomy, Artistic. 9
Color -- Study and teaching. 9
Landscape drawing. 8
Landscape painting -- Study and teaching. 8
Figure drawing -- Technique. 7
Laurie & Whittle -- Publisher. 7
Perspective. 7
Watercolor painting -- Study and teaching. 7
Drawing -- 19th century -- Great Britain. 6
Perspective -- Early works to 1800. 6
Perspective -- Study and teaching. 6
Animals -- Pictorial works. 5
Botanical illustration -- Great Britain. 5
Colors. 5
Coombes, Enid -- Pres. inscription from her father. 5

Subject Period

19th century 49
18th century 6
17th century 1
19h century 1
20th century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 59
England 25
London 16
Edinburgh 3
Italy 2
Birmingham (England) 1
Brighton 1
Chron 1
Coventry (England) 1
Dart River Region (England) 1
Derbyshire (England) 1
Devon (England) 1
Dublin 1
Dublin (Ireland) 1
Edinburgh (Scotland) 1
Europe 1
Gloucester (England) 1
Gloucestershire (England) 1
Ireland 1
Lake District (England) 1
Leamington (England) 1
Leeds 1
London (England) 1
Newbury 1
Norfolk (England) 1
Norwich (England) 1
Rome 1
Scotland 1
Shrewsbury 1
Warwick (England) 1

Associated People

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528 3
Raphael, 1483–1520 2
Jones, S. J. E. (Samuel John Egbert), fl. 1820–1845 1
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519 1
Liston, John, 1776–1846 1
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746–1827 1

Exhibition History

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 23
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 1

Credit Line

22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 5
22895863350008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22968184970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22960435500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22968157150008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22607796860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22611222480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22612437930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22617856720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22617856760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22617856780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22623947200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22633719970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22634490820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22636087490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22636087600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637261840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637299760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637299780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637299800008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637317120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637317140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22637449810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642012300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642014600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642020570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642030870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642039420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642054890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22642054900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 246
French 1
Italian 1
Russian 1

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Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

An illustrated lecture on sketching from nature in pencil and water colour

[between 1862 and 1868]
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Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844

Six lithographic impressions of sketches from nature

1821
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Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

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

1798
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Gwilt, Joseph, 1784–1863

Sciography, or, Examples of shadows

1842
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The art of drawing in perspective

1798
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Drawing and perspective

1870
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Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–

Rudiments of drawing the human figure

[1816]
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Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670

Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and... [Read more]

1672
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Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867

Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting

1833
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Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

Artistic and picturesque groups for the embellishment of landscape

1817
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Laporte, John, 1761–1839

Laporte's Sketch book

[1802]
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Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825

The speculum, or, Art of drawing in water colours

1810
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Instructions in the art of drawing and painting

[between 1782 and 1807]
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Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770

The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in... [Read more]

MDCCLIX [1759]
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Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899

Practical lessons in watercolour painting

[1865]
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Murray, Henry, F.S.A

Art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons

[187-?]
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Greenaway, Kate, 1846–1901

Pictures for painting

[1919]
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Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733

A new drawing book of modes

[1733?]
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Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835

An introduction to perspective, adapted to the capacities of youth, in a series of... [Read more]

1813
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Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis)

The coloured drawing book for young painters

[186-?]
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Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825

The young artists assistant, or, A familiar introduction to the art of... [Read more]

1810
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Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856

Copies after nature

[1836]
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Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680

Short and direct method of painting in water-colours

1730
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Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863

A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water... [Read more]

1825
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The excellency of the pen and pencil,

1688
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Sherlock, William P., 1775–

Drawing book of landscapes, shipping & animals

1819
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Wood, John George, 1768–1838

The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature

1813-[1815]
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My toys

[approximately 1920]
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Varley, John, 1778–1842

Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views

1818]
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Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843

Rudiments of landscape drawing

1812
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The florist

[between 1770 and 1784?]
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Eastgate, John

Six pleasing views of curiosities in Derby, Gloucester and Westmorland

1782
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Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852

Bits for beginners

1817
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Exercise in colouring landscapes

[ca. 1865]
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Murray, Henry, F.S.A

The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons

[187-?]
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Laporte, John, 1761–1839

The progress of a water-coloured drawing

[ca. 1807?]
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Smith, Penelope

Studies of flowers from nature ...

[ca. 1818]
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Burrows, T

Trees

1804
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Welles, E. F., active 1826–1856

Heads of cattle

[18--?]
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Quadal, Martin Ferdinand, 1736–1808

A variety of tame & wild animals

May 25, 1793
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La Cave, P. (Peter)

Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals,... [Read more]

[1801]
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Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant

1824
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Walton, John

Walton's drawing book in the tinted style

18--]
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Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852

Progressive fragments

1817
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A drawing book of landscapes

1810
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The florist

[ca. 1760]
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Taylor, Elias

An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective

1831
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Andrews, James, 1806–1876

Lessons in flower painting.

[1836]
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Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860

The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book in... [Read more]

[between 1833 and 1840?]
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Murray, Henry, F.S.A

The art of portrait painting in oil colours

1856

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