Period: 19th century / Image Available: Unavailable / Subject Terms: Drawing books -- Specimens.

1. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

Creator:: Walton, John
Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 24 col. plates. 26 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A new drawing book of views.

Date:: [ca. 1804]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

Date:: [1805?]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. [Domestic animals from the most esteemed Masters].

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 20 prints in 1 volume : etchings ; volume 29 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The young artists instructor.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [4], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Progressive lessons / by H. M. Whichelo.

Creator:: Whichelo, H. M. (Henry Mayle), 1800–1884
Date:: May 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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:: 1823
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colour : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 32 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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 drawing from nature, and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the sketch 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:: 1823
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 118 p., [4], 10 leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 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

11. Rustic sketches / by W. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: [1], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the late 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:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [34] p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: [ca.1825]
Physical Description:: [6] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The anatomy of the bones and muscles : exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection, and more particularly in the living figure; as applicable to the fine arts : designed for the use of artists, and members of the Artist's anatomical society : in two parts / by George Simpson ; member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London; lecturer on anatomy to the Artist's Anatomical Society, &c. ; illustrated with highly-finished lithographic impressions.

Creator:: Simpson, George
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [7], v, [1], 140 p., xiv, xiv, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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

16. The amateur draughtsman / by Calvert.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: Sept[embe]r 1825
Physical Description:: [49] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 17 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. British scenery / by Calvert ...

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 2 pts. ([1], 4; [1], 5 leaves) : all ill. ; 25 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The Manx sketch book, or, Beauties of the Isle of Man : in a series of lithographic prints : no. 1 / edited by T. Ashe ...

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [15] leaves, [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours, with ten illustrative engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [4], 28 p., X leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Grammar to flower-painting : being a concise, plain, and easy method for amateurs to attain the rudiments of the science without the help of a master : in ten plates, coloured / from drawings by J. Sillett.

Creator:: Sillett, James, 1764–1840
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : all ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The lithographic drawing book for the year 1826 / by R.R. Reinagle, J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel, H. Gastineau, C. Carbonnier, and H. Monnier.

Creator:: Reinagle, Ramsay R. (Ramsay Richard), 1775–1862
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The elements of drawing in its various branches, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty engravings, plain and colored, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: viii, 92 p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A series of practical instructions in landscape painting in water colours : containing directions for sketching from nature, and the application of perspective, progressive lessons in drawing from the tinted sketch to the finished subject, and examples of the introduction of figures, architectural subjects, particular effects, &c. as connected with landscape scenery / by John Clark ; illustrated by fifty-five views from nature, descriptive objects, &c. mounted in imitation of drawings.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Hullmandel's lithographic drawing book for 1827 / by J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [47] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 32 p., [19] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 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:: [1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Every youth's drawing book : containing the whole art of drawing, the principles of perspective, with clear and ample instructions for portrait, flower, miniature, and landscape painting, in oil and in water colours, engraving on wood, casting, medalling, bronzing, mezzotint scraping, modelling, etc. : illustrated with above 60 engravings on wood and copper.

Date:: MDCCCXXVIII [1828]
Physical Description:: 64 p., [31] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Studies of trees, by H. W. Burgess, author of the Eidodendron.

Creator:: Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792–1844
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 1 p., 10 plates, 1 leaf 29 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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

30. Dickinson's Advanced drawing book, 1828.

Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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

32. The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing, and the theory and practice of perspective, in a series of letters containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure : with a new method of practical perspective : detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style : for the use of teachers, or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; teacher of drawing and perspective, and lithographist to the University of Oxford ; embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings ; from real views, taken expressly for this work.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: [between 1829 and 1848]
Physical Description:: vi, 159, [3] p., cv leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (part col.) ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Landscape animals : sketched from nature / by Edward Purcell.

Creator:: Purcell, E. (Edward)
Date:: August 1, 1822 [i.e. 1829]
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 18 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [1], 16 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 35 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [4] p., plates 25-36 : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing : and the theory and practice of perspective in a series of letters containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure with a new method of practical perspective detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style for the use of teachers, or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; teacher of drawing and perspective, and lithographist to the University of Oxford embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings, from real views, taken expressly for this work.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: vi, 159, [3] p., cv [i.e. 107] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. [Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures].

Creator:: Purcell, Edward, fl. 1812–1831
Date:: [ca. 1829?]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves ; 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing, and the theory and practice of perspective, in a series of letters containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure : with a new method of practical perspective : detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style : for the use of teachers, or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; teacher of drawing and perspective, and lithographist to the University of Oxford ; embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings ; from real views, taken expressly for this work.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: [between 1829 and 1848]
Physical Description:: vi, 159, [3] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Series of sketches of cottages, landscapes, trees, bridges, water-falls, ruins, castles, boats, &c.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [60] leaves : ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

Creator:: Purcell, E. (Edward)
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [1], 24 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The child's own drawing-book, or, Easy and progressive steps to drawing in animals, landscapes, flowers, shipping, the human figure, &c. in 14 books / drawn on stone by G.W. Davis.

Creator:: Davis, G. W
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Sketches at home and abroad / by Samuel Prout, F.S.A.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [26] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. An introduction to the study of perspective : elucidated by easy and familiar examples in question and answer : so as to enable the student of drawing, to apply the principles of the science with facility, to sketching from nature / by Stephen Humble ; teacher of drawing and painting, Edinburgh ; illustrated with seventeen copperplates.

Creator:: Humble, Stephen
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 27, [1] p., 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. 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

46. An introduction to perspective, practical geometry, drawing, and painting : a new and perfect explanation of the mixture of colours with full and practical directions for miniature, crayons, and oil painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : and an epistolary instruction to pupils : properly adapted for the instruction of females, and equally for all professional students / by Charles Hayter.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: xxvi, 259 p., [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Hullmandel's Lithographic drawing book for the year 1832 / by J.D. Harding ...

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1832]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: [1], 24 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The elementary drawing book for the year 1833 / by G. Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 28 p., [1], 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Landscape drawing-book / by J. Syer ; complete in six numbers.

Creator:: Syer, John, 1815–1885
Date:: [between 1833 and 1854]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Rudiments of landscapes / by George Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 4 v. : all ill. ; 18 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book in colours : comprising a series of progressive lessons, in the art of drawing and colouring landscapes, marine views, picturesque architecture, animals, fruit, flowers, shells, rustic figures, etc., etc. : with practical direction in the art of painting miniatures and portraits from life / by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: [between 1833 and 1840?]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A compendious treatise of anatomy, adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture on ten folio copper plates : and in which the external muscles and bones of the human body are represented as they appear in the best chosen attitudes, when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface : designed and composed by the aid of the best anatomical tables extant : with a concise and clear explanation, showing the names of the different parts, with their origin, insertion, and use : to which have been added, the names as adopted in modern surgery : a work not only useful, but absolutely necessary, to painters, statuaries, professors, and learners, of drawing and design / by J. Tinney.

Creator:: Tinney, John, -1761
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: [6] p., X leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J. D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: MDCCCXXXIV[1834]
Physical Description:: [4], 80 p., [XXVI, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Creator:: Everard, Anne
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [8] p., 13 leaves, 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Etchings on copper.

Creator:: Welles, E. F., active 1826–1856
Date:: 1835.]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

Creator:: Bragg, G.. F
Date:: [1835?]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Elementary studies of river craft and shipping / by A. Montague.

Creator:: Montague, Alfred, d. 1883
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Hullmandel's lithographic drawing book for the year 1835 / by J.D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons, with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals, &c. / illustrated by upward of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock, author of "The decorative painter's guide," illustrations of York, Sussex, Surrey. &c. &c.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., 104 leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Subjects after nature / by Newton Fielding ; in three parts, four plates each.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1836?]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [1], plates 37-48 plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. New hints, by an old professor, on the art of miniature painting : respectfully dedicated to ladies who are patronesses or practitioners of that elegant pursuit.

Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: 32 , [4] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [2] p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting / illustrated by examples by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 16, [36] p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Sketches from nature of animals and rustic groups, printed with the new tint stone, and touched with white, by Thomas Sidney Cooper.

Creator:: Cooper, Thomas Sidney, 1803–1902
Date:: [1838?]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 32 plates. 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Elementary drawing book of landscapes and buildings / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The royal juvenile drawing book.

Date:: [ca. 1840?]
Physical Description:: pt. : all ill. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Principles of effect and colour : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 30, [2] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Child's advanced drawing book.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The art of drawing without a master / from Mons. Le Clerc.

Date:: [ca. 1840?]
Physical Description:: [19] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Vandenburgh's drawing book and young artists' preceptor : for teaching every branch of the art without the aid of a master : consisting of one hundred and seventy-nine graphic illustrations, and one hundred and forty- two pages of letterpress instructions ...

Date:: [ca. 184-]
Physical Description:: [1], 2, 136, iv p., [179] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Harding's Drawing book for the year MDCCCXLI : studies in sepia : partly original and partly selected.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : all ill. ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

Date:: [Jany.1,1841]
Physical Description:: 48 leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: 24 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The students' guide, or, Elements of drawing and perspective : with directions for sketching and colouring from nature / by H.M. Whichelo, professor of drawing and painting at the Clapham, Stockwell, and Stepney grammar schools.

Creator:: Whichelo, H. M. (Henry Mayle), 1800–1884
Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: 13, [1] p., XIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

Creator:: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784–1863
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: viii, 55, [1] pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The art of flower painting, in easy lessons : with directions for preparing the tints, and examples of each subject in various stages, drawn and coloured from nature / by James Andrews.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: [1842]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form / by D. R. Hay ; decorative painter to the Queen, Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institue of the Architects of Ireland, and author of "The Laws of harmonious colouring," etc.

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 50 p., XVIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Ackermann's rudimental drawing-book, for beginners in landscape / by H. Bright ; complete in six numbers.

Creator:: Bright, Henry, 1810–1873
Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A manual for teaching model-drawing from solid forms, : the models founded on those of M. Dupuis; combined with a popular view of perspective, and adapted to the elementary instruction of classes in schools and public institutions. / by Butler Williams ... ; under the sanction of the Committee of Council on Education.

Creator:: Williams, J. Butler (James Butler), Sir
Date:: M.DCCC.XLIII. [1843]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 257, [1], 16 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Sketches at home and abroad : hints on the acquirement of freedom of execution and breadth of effect in landscape painting : to which are added simple instructions on the proper uses and application of colour / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Progressive drawing-book of flowers, for beginners. / By James Andrews ... Drawn on stone by John Collins, and coloured after nature.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 2 leaves, [24] leaves of plates (some colored) : ill. ; 15 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The principles and practice of art / by J.D. Harding ; with illustrations drawn and engraved by the author.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [2], vii, [1], 156 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. First drawing book.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 11 pages, XLVIII leaves of plates ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

Creator:: Burgess, J. Howard (James Howard), 1817–1890
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 13 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Drawing book of trees : including the elements of foliage and finished studies / by George Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [1], 24 leaves : all ill. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples / by Samuel Prout, F. S. A., painter in water colours in ordinary to Her Majesty.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 16 p., [20] leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Lessons on trees / by J.D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:: [6] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. An elementary treatise on sketching from nature : with the principles of light and shade, the theory of colours, &c. / by John Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John
Date:: [1850]
Physical Description:: 52 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

Creator:: Hermes, Wilhelm
Date:: [185-?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Trees and their uses.

Date:: [1850?]
Physical Description:: [4] pt.. : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. T.C. Dibdin's Pleasing self instructor in the art of drawing : comprised in a series of progressive lessons carefully engraved and simplified with printed letterpress directions : by which a child 9 years old may teach itself the art without the pressure of a master / by T.C. Dibdin ...

Creator:: Dibdin, Thomas Colman, 1810–1893
Date:: [185-?]
Physical Description:: [2], 8, [2], 40 p., 8, 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Slate pencil drawings : for the self instruction of children.

Date:: [ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. A practical treatise on composition, light and shade, and colour / by Harry Willson ; author of Fugitive sketches in Rome, Venice, &c.

Creator:: Willson, Harry, 19th cent
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: 81 p., [1], [xi] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 91 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The progressive drawing book : containing a series of easy and comprehensive lessons for drawing landscape, architecture, the human figure, shipping, animals, &c. : without the aid of a master : also a complete treatise on perspective : with nearly three hundred engravings.

Date:: MLCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 56, [1] p., 88 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

2. A new drawing book of views.

3. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

4. [Domestic animals from the most esteemed Masters].

5. The young artists instructor.

6. Progressive lessons / by H. M. Whichelo.

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

8. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colour : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

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

11. Rustic sketches / by W. Heath.

13. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

15. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

16. The amateur draughtsman / by Calvert.

17. British scenery / by Calvert ...

18. The Manx sketch book, or, Beauties of the Isle of Man : in a series of lithographic prints : no. 1 / edited by T. Ashe ...

19. A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours, with ten illustrative engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

20. Grammar to flower-painting : being a concise, plain, and easy method for amateurs to attain the rudiments of the science without the help of a master : in ten plates, coloured / from drawings by J. Sillett.

21. The lithographic drawing book for the year 1826 / by R.R. Reinagle, J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel, H. Gastineau, C. Carbonnier, and H. Monnier.

22. The elements of drawing in its various branches, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty engravings, plain and colored, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton.

24. Hullmandel's lithographic drawing book for 1827 / by J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel.

25. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

26. 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.

28. Studies of trees, by H. W. Burgess, author of the Eidodendron.

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

30. Dickinson's Advanced drawing book, 1828.

31. 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.

33. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

34. Landscape animals : sketched from nature / by Edward Purcell.

35. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

36. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

38. [Sketchbook, with pen and ink watercolor studies of figures, heads, and rural and classical figures].

40. Series of sketches of cottages, landscapes, trees, bridges, water-falls, ruins, castles, boats, &c.

41. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

42. The child's own drawing-book, or, Easy and progressive steps to drawing in animals, landscapes, flowers, shipping, the human figure, &c. in 14 books / drawn on stone by G.W. Davis.

43. Sketches at home and abroad / by Samuel Prout, F.S.A.

45. 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.

47. Hullmandel's Lithographic drawing book for the year 1832 / by J.D. Harding ...

48. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

49. The elementary drawing book for the year 1833 / by G. Barnard.

50. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

51. Landscape drawing-book / by J. Syer ; complete in six numbers.

52. Rudiments of landscapes / by George Harley.

55. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J. D. Harding.

56. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

57. Etchings on copper.

58. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

59. Elementary studies of river craft and shipping / by A. Montague.

60. Hullmandel's lithographic drawing book for the year 1835 / by J.D. Harding.

62. Subjects after nature / by Newton Fielding ; in three parts, four plates each.

63. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

64. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

65. New hints, by an old professor, on the art of miniature painting : respectfully dedicated to ladies who are patronesses or practitioners of that elegant pursuit.

66. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

67. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting / illustrated by examples by Samuel Prout.

68. Sketches from nature of animals and rustic groups, printed with the new tint stone, and touched with white, by Thomas Sidney Cooper.

69. Elementary drawing book of landscapes and buildings / by Samuel Prout.

70. The royal juvenile drawing book.

71. Principles of effect and colour : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

72. Child's advanced drawing book.

73. The art of drawing without a master / from Mons. Le Clerc.

74. Vandenburgh's drawing book and young artists' preceptor : for teaching every branch of the art without the aid of a master : consisting of one hundred and seventy-nine graphic illustrations, and one hundred and forty- two pages of letterpress instructions ...

75. Harding's Drawing book for the year MDCCCXLI : studies in sepia : partly original and partly selected.

76. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

77. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

78. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

79. The students' guide, or, Elements of drawing and perspective : with directions for sketching and colouring from nature / by H.M. Whichelo, professor of drawing and painting at the Clapham, Stockwell, and Stepney grammar schools.

80. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

81. The art of flower painting, in easy lessons : with directions for preparing the tints, and examples of each subject in various stages, drawn and coloured from nature / by James Andrews.

82. The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form / by D. R. Hay ; decorative painter to the Queen, Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institue of the Architects of Ireland, and author of "The Laws of harmonious colouring," etc.

83. Ackermann's rudimental drawing-book, for beginners in landscape / by H. Bright ; complete in six numbers.

85. Sketches at home and abroad : hints on the acquirement of freedom of execution and breadth of effect in landscape painting : to which are added simple instructions on the proper uses and application of colour / by Samuel Prout.

86. Progressive drawing-book of flowers, for beginners. / By James Andrews ... Drawn on stone by John Collins, and coloured after nature.

87. The principles and practice of art / by J.D. Harding ; with illustrations drawn and engraved by the author.