Work Type: handbooks and manual / Subject Terms: Drawing -- Technique. / Classification: Books

1. Perspectiua : eyn schön nützlich Büchlin vnd Vnderweisung der Kunst des Messens mit dem Zirckel, Richtscheidt oder Linial : Zunutz allen Kunstliebhabern, fürnemlich den Malern, Bildhawern, Goldschiden, Seidenstickern, Steynmetzen, Schreinern, auch allen andern so sich der Kunst des Messens (perspectiua zu Latein genant) zu gebrauchen Lust haben : darin man auch solche Kunst leichter dañ auss etlichen Hieuor getruckten Büchern begreiffen vnd lernen mag, mit viel schönen darzu dienenden Figuren.

Perspectiua : eyn schön nützlich Büchlin vnd Vnderweisung der Kunst des Messens mit dem Zirckel, Richtscheidt oder Linial : Zunutz allen Kunstliebhabern, fürnemlich den Malern, Bildhawern, Goldschiden, Seidenstickern, Steynmetzen, Schreinern, auch allen andern so sich der Kunst des Messens (perspectiua zu Latein genant) zu gebrauchen Lust haben : darin man auch solche Kunst leichter dañ auss etlichen Hieuor getruckten Büchern begreiffen vnd lernen mag, mit viel schönen darzu dienenden Figuren.

Creator:: Rodler, Hieronymus
Date:: 1546
Physical Description:: [89] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...

Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...

Creator:: Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:: 1675
Physical Description:: [8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in 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 : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two 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 practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in 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 : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two 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 practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work : elegantly engraved on eighty quarto copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; wherein the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work : elegantly engraved on eighty quarto copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; wherein the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 8 p., [80] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

Creator:: Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...

The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:: 1607
Physical Description:: 4, 70 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: 1647
Physical Description:: [3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The art of drawing without a master / from the French of the Sieur P.B.

Date:: [1768]
Physical Description:: [20] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Progressive lessons tending to elucidate the character of trees : with the process of sketching, and painting them in water colours / by Ls. Francia, member of the Liverpool Academy, painter in water colours to H.R.H. the Dutchess of York, and secretary to the Associated Painters in Water Colours.

Progressive lessons tending to elucidate the character of trees : with the process of sketching, and painting them in water colours / by Ls. Francia, member of the Liverpool Academy, painter in water colours to H.R.H. the Dutchess of York, and secretary to the Associated Painters in Water Colours.

Creator:: Francia, François-Thomas-Louis, 1772–1839
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: [24] p., 1, [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The drawing school for little masters and misses : containing the most easy and concise rules for learning to draw, without the assistance of a teacher : embellished with a great variety of figures, curiously designed : to which are added, The whole art of kite making ; and the author's new discoveries in the preparation of water colours / by Master Michael Angelo.

The drawing school for little masters and misses : containing the most easy and concise rules for learning to draw, without the assistance of a teacher : embellished with a great variety of figures, curiously designed : to which are added, The whole art of kite making ; and the author's new discoveries in the preparation of water colours / by Master Michael Angelo.

Creator:: Angelo, Michael, 18th cent
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: [6], iv, 106 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

14. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages, 100 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Six progressive lessons for flower painting : with letter-press directions for drawing and coloring of flowers upon botanical principles.

Date:: January 1, 1802
Physical Description:: 14, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 38 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A.
Date:: [between 1906 and 1916]
Physical Description:: 60, 64 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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

19. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. 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

21. Rudiments of drawing, shadowing, and colouring flowers in water colours : contained in thirty-six instructive lessons, illustrated by twenty-nine plates from the outline of a single leaf progressively to the completion of a fine group : intended for beginners and students of this delightful art : with a description of colours used & the method of mixing them.

Date:: 1818 [i.e. 1817]
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., [1], 29 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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

23. Useful hints on drawing and painting; intended to facilitate the improvement of young persons. By J.C. Burgess ...

Creator:: Burgess, John Cart, 1798–1863
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: vii, 54 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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

25. 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.

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. An introduction to perspective, drawing, and painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : illustrated by appropriate plates and diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry, and a compendium of genuine instruction, comprising a progressive and complete body of information, carefully adapted for the instruction of females, and suited equally to the simplicity of youth and mental maturity / by Mr. Hayter, portrait painter, in miniature and crayons, and teacher of the principal elements of the art.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 197, [3] p., [xvii] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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

28. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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

30. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

Creator:: Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: [8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The artist's vade-mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 92 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Date:: [1808?]
Physical Description:: 67, 16 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

Date:: [between 1782 and 1807]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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 ...

Date:: [1698]
Physical Description:: [3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 40 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. 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, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The Art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... With instructions for making transparent colours of every sort; partly from some curious personages in Holland, France, and Italy; but chiefly from a manuscript of the great Mr. Boyle ...

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 64 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Physical Description:: [6], 67, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. 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.

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

46. 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

47. Bowles's new preceptor in drawing ... Being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... On sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Designed chiefly for young beginners ... To which is prefixed, An introduction to drawing ... Translated from the French of monsieur Gerard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c.

Date:: [ca. 1799]
Physical Description:: 20 p. 62 plates on 42 leaves. 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The English academy : a drawing book containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies : with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning ... / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

Creator:: P. L
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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

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3. Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...

7. The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...

9. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

10. The art of drawing without a master / from the French of the Sieur P.B.

15. Six progressive lessons for flower painting : with letter-press directions for drawing and coloring of flowers upon botanical principles.

16. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

17. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

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

23. Useful hints on drawing and painting; intended to facilitate the improvement of young persons. By J.C. Burgess ...

25. 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.

28. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

32. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

33. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

34. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

36. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

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

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

39. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

40. 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 ...

41. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

42. 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, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

44. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

46. 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.

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