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1. Introductory lessons with familiar examples in landscape : for the use of those who are desirous of gaining some knowledge of the pleasing art of painting in water colours : to which are added some clear and simple rules, exemplified by suitable sketches and more finished painting : as this work is chiefly intended for the mere beginner, the rules are both familiar and progressive : to which are added, instructions for executing transparencies, in a style both novel and easy / by James Roberts.

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Creator:
Roberts, James, 1753–approximately 1809
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[4], 36 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours : with directions how to prepare and use them : including succinct hints on drawing and painting.

A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours : with directions how to prepare and use them : including succinct hints on drawing and painting.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1801]
Physical Description:
24 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

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Creator:
La Cave, P. (Peter)
Date:
[1801]
Physical Description:
v. : all ill. ; 29 x 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A treatise on painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; faithfully translated from the original Italian, and now first digested under proper heads, by John Francis Rigaud, Esq. ; Academician of The Royal Academy of Painting at London, and also of The Academia Clementina at Bologna, and The Royal Academy at Stockholm ; illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates, and other figures ; to which is prefixed a new life of the author, drawn up from authentic materials till now inaccessible, by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.S.

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Creator:
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
[2], xcv, [1], 236 p., 22 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., diagrs., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

5. An accidence, or gamut, of painting in oil and water colours. Part I. / by Julius Ibbetson.

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Creator:
Ibbetson, Julius, 1759–1817
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
26 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Neues und fassliches Lehrbuch zum Zeichnen und Mahlen nach richtigen Grundfässen. Nebst einer neuen Methode, Kinder zeichnen und mahlen lehren, von der Frau von Genlis. Mit 27 schwarzen und colorirten Kupfertafeln.

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Creator:
Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746–1830
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
56 p. plates (part col.) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A new pocket sketch book : containing an easy method of drawing landscape, figures, cattle, &c. from nature : the general principles of perspective, accompanied with nine explanatory etchings : the theory and use of colours, in water and oil : with many necessary and practical rules for tinting, varnishing, &c. / by T.R. Guest.

A new pocket sketch book : containing an easy method of drawing landscape, figures, cattle, &c. from nature : the general principles of perspective, accompanied with nine explanatory etchings : the theory and use of colours, in water and oil : with many necessary and practical rules for tinting, varnishing, &c. / by T.R. Guest.
Creator:
Guest, T. R. (Thomas Robert)
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
viii, 38, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A familiar treatise on perspective : designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry : whereby, in a few days, sufficient of this useful science may be learned, to enable any person, accumstomed to the use of the pencil, to draw landscapes, and the simpler objects of art : with perspective accuracy / by W. Daniel.

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Creator:
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
43, [1] p., 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A new elucidation of colours, original, prismatic, and material : showing their concordance in three primitives, yellow, red, and blue : and the means of producing, measuring, and mixing them : with some observations on the accuracy of Sir Isaac Newton / by James Sowerby, F.L.S., &c. designer of English botany, and exotic botany ; author of English fungi, British mineralogy, British miscellany, the Botanical drawing book, &c.--No. 2, Mead Place, Lambeth, Surrey.

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Creator:
Sowerby, James, 1757–1822
Date:
MDCCCIX [1809]
Physical Description:
[4], 51, [1] p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The painter's primer : in familiar rhyme, without notes : containing the most approved methods for beginners in the art progressively laid down, and peculiarly adapted for the purpose of a Vade-Mecum to practitioners in every branch of painting / by an Experienced Artist.

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Creator:
Experienced artist
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], 43 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The principles of drawing and painting : laid down in the most easy and simple manner, according to the practice of the best masters : with a view to the instruction of youth in this useful and elegant art : with twenty-eight copperplates, after Volpato, Vandyke, Morland, &c. / engraved by Mitchell.

The principles of drawing and painting : laid down in the most easy and simple manner, according to the practice of the best masters : with a view to the instruction of youth in this useful and elegant art : with twenty-eight copperplates, after Volpato, Vandyke, Morland, &c. / engraved by Mitchell.
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
20 p., 28 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The art of painting in miniature, on ivory, in the manner at present practiced by the most eminent artists in that profession : also, instructions for painting in wax crayons : ... to which is annexed, the art of burnished gilding on glass in a variety of branches ... / by John Payne.

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Creator:
Payne, John
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
iv, 28 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An introduction to perspective, adapted to the capacities of youth, in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues, between the author's children : accompanied with illustrative plates, appropriate diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry : to which is added, A compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting : the whole comprising a body of information, adapted equally to the simplicity of youth, and to mental maturity ... / by Mr. Hayter ...

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Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
viii, 168 p., [1], XIV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The elements of flower and fruit painting / illustrated with engravings by T.L. Busby ; from studies after nature by Madame Vincent.

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Creator:
Busby, T. L. (Thomas Lord)
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[32] leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Perspective explained in a series of dialogues between the author's children George, Ann, Eliza and John.

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Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
circa 1820
Physical Description:
1 v. (120 p.) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts