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Period 19th century

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)

Language English

1. 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

2. The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.

The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.

Creator:: Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], ii, xiv, 71, [1] p., 23 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Bowles's Passions of the soul : represented in several heads : engraved in the manner of drawing in chalk / from the designs of the late celebrated Monsieur Le Brun.

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Creator:: Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:: [1800?]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 20 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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