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Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
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Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
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Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
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Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
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Austin, William, 1721–1820
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
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Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
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Camper, Petrus, 1722–1789
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Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
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Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
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Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
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Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
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Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810
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Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
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Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
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Hipwell, John
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
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Junius, Franciscus, 1589–1677
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Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
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Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
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Books
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Archives & Manuscripts
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18th century
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17th century
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19th century
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drawing book
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handbooks and manual
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engraving
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aquatint
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etching
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soft-ground etching
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copy books (penmanship)
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exercise book
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ink drawing
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map
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nautical chart
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watercolor
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writing book
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annotations (provenance)
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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broadside
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emblem book
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ephemera
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Drawing -- Technique.
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Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Watercolor painting -- Technique.
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Anatomy, Artistic.
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Painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Painting -- Technique.
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Perspective -- Early works to 1800.
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Sayer, R. -- Publisher.
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Sayer, Robert -- Publisher.
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Animals.
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Arithmetic -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Arithmetic -- Study and teaching.
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Artillery -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Artillery -- Study and teaching.
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Astronomy -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Astronomy -- Study and teaching.
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Botanical illustration -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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Engraving -- Specimens -- 1752.
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Engraving -- Specimens -- 1766.
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Great Britain
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England
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London
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China
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Dublin (Ireland)
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Rome
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Wales
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Wye, River (Wales and England)
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Associated People
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528
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Hipwell, John
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Livesay, Richard, -1823?
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Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758–1834
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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)
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Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
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English
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[Flower groups]
[1798]
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Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
A collection of landskips, and figures, &c.
January 12, 1773
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Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801
A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice;
1776
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A curious collection of beasts, horses, and birds
[ca. 1750]
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Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
A method to learn to design the passions
1734
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Langton, John, active 1700–1727
A new copy-book of the small Italian hand
[1727?]
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A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione
[176-?]
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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 =
1722
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Rice, Edmund Nagle, -1801
A plan of mathematical learning taught in the Royal Academy, Portsmouth
approximately 1798-1799
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Austin, William, 1721–1820
A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil
1781
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Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical
1712
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Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints
[1698]
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Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy
[177-?]
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Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
An essay on design
1749
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Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape
1793
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