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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. [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 compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made clear, in theory, by various moveable schemes, and diagrams; and reduced to practice ... Containing diagrams, views, and original designs, in architecture, &c. ... All originals; invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved by the author, Thomas Malton.

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Creator:
Malton, Thomas, 1726–1801
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 p. l., viii, [8], 284 p. front., XLVI fold. pl. (incl. diagrs.) 38 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A curious collection of beasts, horses, and birds : copied from the best masters : very useful to draw after : in four parts.

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Date:
[ca. 1750]
Physical Description:
25 leaves : all ill. ; 22 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A method to learn to design the passions : proposed in a conference on their general and particular expression / written in French and illustrated with a great many figures excellently designed by Mr. Le Brun, chief painter to the French king ... ; translated into English and all the designs engraved on copper by John Williams ...

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
xii, [11]-58 p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

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Creator:
Austin, William, 1721–1820
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
6, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

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Creator:
Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
Date:
1712
Physical Description:
[4], xvi, 173 p., 6 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

12. 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

13. An essay on design: including proposals for erecting a public academy to be supported by voluntary subscription (till a royal foundation can be obtain'd) for educating the British youth in drawing, and the several arts depending thereon ...

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Creator:
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
vi, 92 p. ill., 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. An essay on the theory of painting. By Mr. Richardson ...

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Creator:
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665–1745
Date:
1715
Physical Description:
240 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts