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1. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [10] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ackermann's new drawing book of light and shadow in imitation of indian ink.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [12], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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

6. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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.

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

8. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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

10. 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

11. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

Creator:: Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620–1683
Date:: [ca. 1790]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:: [17--]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 35 plates on 34 leaves. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: [4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1779]
Physical Description:: [1], [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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.

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

16. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

Creator:: Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: 20 p., [12] leaves of plates. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

Creator:: Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [16] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

Creator:: Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [18] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

Creator:: Brown, Richard, architect
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 ., [vii]-xii, 52 p. 25 plates (part col.) 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The illustrated drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans ... / by Robert Scott Burn ...

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: vii, [8]-143 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Trees : studies from nature / by T. Burrows.

Creator:: Burrows, T
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 4 leaves : all ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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

23. 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

24. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

Creator:: Chalon, Henry Bernard, 1770–1849
Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 x 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808–1889
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

Creator:: Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: [11] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The little sketch book : a course of very easy lessons in landscapes, figures, &c. First series, for young beginners.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: [between 1832 and 1839]
Physical Description:: 28 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 14 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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

29. A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in water colours : accompanied with ten engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 25 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 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

31. Short and plain principles of linear perspective, adapted to naval architecture : containing rules to draw correctly the forms of ships in every possible position : the whole being rendered so clear that a complete knowledge of the art may be soon and easily attained : illustrated with five copper plates / by A. Cobin.

Creator:: Cobin, A
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8], 6, [3] p., V folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin ; revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d'après l'antique ; avec leurs mesures & proportions ; d'une description exacte des os & muscles du corps humain, & de leurs offices & usages ; avec une instruction facile pour apprendre à dessiner toutes ces figures, selon les différens aspects qu'elles peuvent avoir.

Creator:: Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522–ca. 1593
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: 72 p. : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [2], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

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

38. Characteristics of the great schools of painting : intended as a first step towards forming the minds of youth to a knowledge of those works by which they will acquire a correct taste in the art / by W.M. Craig ...

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1812 [i.e. 1813]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Six studies from nature / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by William Crotch.

Creator:: Crotch, William, 1775–1847
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 36 x 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Sketches illustrative of picturesque scenery of Norfolk / drawn and engraved by Robt. Dixon.

Creator:: Dixon, R. J., 1780–1815
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [36] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Advanced studies in marine painting / by Edward Duncan ... ; eight facsimiles of the original paintings ; many drawings in outline after Duncan, and a number of reproductions of works by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. ; accompanied by descriptions and practical instructions for copying by an eminent teacher.

Creator:: Duncan, Edward, 1804–1882
Date:: [1889]
Physical Description:: 52 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Six pleasing views of curiosities in Derby, Gloucester and Westmorland.

Creator:: Eastgate, John
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 6 leaves : all ill. ; 22 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. 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

45. Four aquatinta sketches / by William Fellows.

Creator:: Fellows, William
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

Creator:: Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. 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

48. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 54 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Copies after nature / by Newton Fielding ; ... 12 plates.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. What to sketch with, or, Hints on the use of coloured crayons, water colours, oil colours, black and white chalks, black-lead pencil : and the author's new method of preserving the light with composition / by Newton Fielding, formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 48 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 54 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of flower painting in water colours.

Creator:: Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

Creator:: Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [34] leaves plates : all ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

Creator:: Francia, François-Thomas-Louis, 1772–1839
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2] p., [59] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. 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

56. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 43 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the 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:: 1811
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [31] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. 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.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The grammar of form.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808–1876
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: XXIV leaves : all ill. : 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The complete aquatinter : being the whole process of etching and engraving in aquatinta : the method of using the aquafortis, with all the necessary tools : to which are added upwards of sixty of the best receipts for grounds, varnishes, &c. : collected from near a hundred that are most in use : the difficulties which may possibly occur, are point out, and the method of obviating them : the whole rendered clear and practical.

Creator:: Green, J. H. (John Hippisley)
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: viii, 25, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

Creator:: Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Practical lessons in watercolour painting / by N.E. Green ; in six parts, (each part containing a subject in four states).

Creator:: Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:: [1865]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Seventy eight studies from nature. Engraved by William Green, from drawings made by himself.

Creator:: Green, William, A.B
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: 20 p. 78 col. plates on 63 leaves. 41 x 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Pictures for painting / by Kate Greenaway ; with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.

Creator:: Greenaway, Kate, 1846–1901
Date:: [1919]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. 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

68. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1812
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. [Drawing book].

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 28 leaves : all ill. ; 18 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Practical manual of painting in oil colours : in three parts / by Ernest Hareux ; translated by H.B. Hayes ; with numerous illustrations by the author.

Creator:: Hareux, Ernest, 1847–1909
Date:: [between 1880 and 1895]
Physical Description:: 3 parts : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1808-1811
Physical Description:: 4 v. plates 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The speculum, or, Art of drawing in water colours : and instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of a water-coloured drawing, familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive stages : with directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, etc. / by J.Hassell.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 56 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The young artists assistant, or, A familiar introduction to the art of drawing, with instructions for colouring &c. / By J. Hassell, drawing master ; iIllustrated by plates displaying the first principles of the art, and a series of the passions, as expressed by the celebrated Le Brun.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: viii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Hints for sketching trees from nature, in water colours : with numerous illustrations / by Thomas Hatton.

Creator:: Hatton, Thomas
Date:: [ca. 1890]
Physical Description:: [2], 61, [1] p., IX leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. 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 ...

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

79. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. 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

81. Howitt's drawing book of animals : consisting of fifty etchings from nature.

Creator:: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:: [1820?]
Physical Description:: [50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. 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

83. 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.

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

84. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art : being a compleat drawing book containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips [sic], cattle, building, &c. curiously engraved on copper plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd, an introduction to drawing; containing an account of the instruments and materials used in drawing, and the method of managing them; also instruction to form the judgment of a young beginner, and direct his hand in practice, with early and proper lessons for him at the first entrance : also, early and proper lessons for a young beginner, with instructions to form his judgment and direct his practice / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerard de Lairesse and improved with abstracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [2], 8, [2] p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

Creator:: Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:: MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:: [16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 38 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. [Drawing book of trees]

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1821.]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the Learner the various gradation through which a drawing passes from the outline to its finished state : this work, consisting of fourteen tinted lessons, imitative of the original drawings which were made for the purpose of it by John Laporte ...

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1811]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [1], 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the reader the various gradation through which a drawing passes : from the outline to the finished state : the intention of this little work is to enable young people, where an eminent Master cannot be had, to cultivate the delightful art of drawing in colours with system and advantage.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1807?]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1795-1798
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laporte.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 43 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Laporte's Sketch book.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [26] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Heads representing the various passions of the soul : as they are expressed in the human countanance / drawn by that great master Monsr. Le Brun and finally engraved in twenty folio copper plates, nearly the size of life.

Creator:: Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 20 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: [between 1726 and 1736]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A course of water-colour painting : with twenty-four coloured plates / from designs by R.P. Leitch.

Creator:: Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:: [1880?]
Physical Description:: 36 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. 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.

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

100. Scenery of the river Dart : being a series of thirty-five views representing the most interesting features in its course, from its source in the wildest & most uncultivated parts of Dartmoor, to its mouth in the English Channel : executed to form as nearly as possible facsimilies of the drawings, and therefore calculated not only to interest the admirers of nature, and those unacquainted with the country, but also to form a set of studies for the learners of landscape drawing / drawn and engraved by F.C. Lewis, engraver to H.R.H. Prince Leopold and H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte.

Creator:: Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779–1856
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves, 35 leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

2. Ackermann's new drawing book of light and shadow in imitation of indian ink.

3. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

4. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

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

7. 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.

8. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

12. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

13. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

14. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

16. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

17. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

18. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

19. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

20. The illustrated drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans ... / by Robert Scott Burn ...

21. Trees : studies from nature / by T. Burrows.

22. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

23. The young artists instructor.

24. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

25. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

26. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

27. The little sketch book : a course of very easy lessons in landscapes, figures, &c. First series, for young beginners.

29. A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in water colours : accompanied with ten engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

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

33. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

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

35. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

36. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

37. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

38. Characteristics of the great schools of painting : intended as a first step towards forming the minds of youth to a knowledge of those works by which they will acquire a correct taste in the art / by W.M. Craig ...

39. Six studies from nature / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by William Crotch.

40. Sketches illustrative of picturesque scenery of Norfolk / drawn and engraved by Robt. Dixon.

43. Six pleasing views of curiosities in Derby, Gloucester and Westmorland.

44. 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.

45. Four aquatinta sketches / by William Fellows.

46. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

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

48. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

49. Copies after nature / by Newton Fielding ; ... 12 plates.

51. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding.

52. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of flower painting in water colours.

53. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

54. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

56. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

59. The grammar of form.

60. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

61. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

63. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

64. Practical lessons in watercolour painting / by N.E. Green ; in six parts, (each part containing a subject in four states).

65. Seventy eight studies from nature. Engraved by William Green, from drawings made by himself.

66. Pictures for painting / by Kate Greenaway ; with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.

67. 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.

68. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

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

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

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

72. [Drawing book].

73. Practical manual of painting in oil colours : in three parts / by Ernest Hareux ; translated by H.B. Hayes ; with numerous illustrations by the author.

74. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

76. The young artists assistant, or, A familiar introduction to the art of drawing, with instructions for colouring &c. / By J. Hassell, drawing master ; iIllustrated by plates displaying the first principles of the art, and a series of the passions, as expressed by the celebrated Le Brun.

77. Hints for sketching trees from nature, in water colours : with numerous illustrations / by Thomas Hatton.

79. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

80. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

81. Howitt's drawing book of animals : consisting of fifty etchings from nature.

83. 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.

87. Process of sketching a landscape.

88. Process of sketching a landscape.

89. [Drawing book of trees]

92. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

93. Characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laporte.