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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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1. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

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Date:
[176-?]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : all ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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Date:
1722
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm. x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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:
[1698]
Physical Description:
[3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[177-?]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

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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

6. 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

7. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

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Creator:
Russell, John, 1745–1806
Date:
MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:
[8], 46 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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.

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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

9. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

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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

10. The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...

The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
4, 70 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[ca. 1801]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

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Date:
1688
Physical Description:
1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The principles of drawing, design, and engraving; : by rules formed from nature and truth: With the late various improvements, and some new discoveries, never before published; being entirely the result of practical experience and self-observation / By an artist.

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Date:
1800
Physical Description:
24 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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.

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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

15. 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.

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Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
8, [2] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts