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 / Work Type: engraving / Classification: Books - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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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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Work Type engraving

Classification Books

1. [Flower groups].

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Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of landskips, and figures, &c. : on twenty-nine copper-plates / designed, etched, and engraved by Paul Sandby, and M. Chatlain.

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Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:: January 12, 1773
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [29] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new copy-book of the small Italian hand : published for the use of publick and private schools as well as for the use of families / by John Langton, writing master ...

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Creator:: Langton, John, active 1700–1727
Date:: [1727?]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. 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

6. Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / by John Caspar Lavater ... : illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals ; executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.

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Creator:: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCVIII [1789-1798, i.e. 1799]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 5 : illustrations, 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

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Creator:: Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

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Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.

The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: [4], 47, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 x 60 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 triumph of painting.

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Creator:: Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: 38 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts