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201. 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

202. The compleat drawing-master : containing many curious specimens : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, buildings &c. neatly engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of the great masters : wherein the principles of drawing are laid down after a natural and easy manner : to which is prefixed some general instructions to form the judgement of young beginners : by which the useful art can be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 21 p., [102] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

203. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 8 p., 105 leaves of plates on 85 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

204. The complete guide to the fine arts : containing instructions in the art of drawing, oil colour painting, water colour painting, perspective, flower painting, miniature painting, oriental tinting, crayon painting, lithographic drawing, engraving on wood and copper, sketching from nature, etc., etc., valuable recipes, etc.

Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [6], 208 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

205. The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: Jany. 2nd, 1837
Physical Description:: [14] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

206. 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

207. 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

208. 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

209. The elements of drawing : containing the first principles of light and shade, colouring, and perspective, with engravings, and coloured examples of tints / by George Marshall Mather.

Creator:: Mather, George Marshall
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 46 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

210. The elements of drawing in all its branches.

Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: 1 p.., iii, 71 p. plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

211. 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

212. 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

213. 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

214. 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

215. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:: [between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

216. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

217. 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

218. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:: 1634
Physical Description:: [8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

219. The guide and companion to the "Lessons on art" / by J. D. Harding ; author of "The principles and practice of art;" "Elementary art, or The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained;" "Lessons on art;" "Lessons on trees;" &c. &c.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1854]
Physical Description:: vi, 178 p.,14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

220. 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

221. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [8], [5]-145 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

222. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [5]-146 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

223. The new artist's manual : the complete guide to painting and drawing materials and techniques / by Simon Jennings.

Creator:: Jennings, Simon, artist
Date:: 2006
Physical Description:: 399 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

224. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

Creator:: Walker, John Rawson, 1796–1873
Date:: [ca. 1847]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

225. The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing : and the theory and practice of perspective in a series of letters containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure with a new method of practical perspective detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style for the use of teachers, or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; teacher of drawing and perspective, and lithographist to the University of Oxford embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings, from real views, taken expressly for this work.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: vi, 159, [3] p., cv [i.e. 107] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

226. The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours : exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner, including the elements of perspective, their application in sketching from nature and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the outline a finished picture, with observations on the study of nature and various other matters relative to the arts / by Francis Nicholson.

Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 91 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

227. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A. ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1813-[1815]
Physical Description:: 4 pt. (18, 16, 8, 14 p., 16, 16, 16, 16, leaves of plates) : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

228. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., author of Lectures on perspective, delivered at the Royal Institution in the years 1807, 1808, and 1809 ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

229. 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

230. 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

231. 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

232. The principles of drawing, design, and engraving; : by rules formed from nature and truth: With the late various improvements, and some new discoveries, never before published; being entirely the result of practical experience and self-observation / By an artist.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 24 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

233. 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

234. 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

235. 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

236. 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

237. The rudiments of practical perspective : in which the representation of objects is described by two easy methods, one depending onthe plan of the object, the other on its dimensions and position ... / by Peter Nicholson ... ; illustrated by 38 plates ; elegantly engraved by Lowry.

Creator:: Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xviii, 122 p., [38] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

238. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings, after the most celebrated heads in the cartoons at the Queen's palace : to which are now added, the outlines of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing : and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: 21, [1] pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

239. The school perspective : being a progressive course of instruction in Linear Perspective, both theoretical and practical : specially designed for the use of schools / by J.R. Dicksee, principal drawing master to the city of London School, to The Normal College for training teachers of the British and Foreign School Society, &c. ; illustrated with many woodcuts and forty engraved plates.

Creator:: Dicksee, J. R. (John Robert), 1817–1905
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: xiv, 79, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

240. 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

241. The student's treasure : a new drawing book, consisting in a variety of etchings and engravings executed by Irish artists, after the following great masters, viz : Angelica, Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Wheatly, Vivaries, West, Bertrand, Rowlandson, Stubbs, Zucchi, Mortimer, Howit, Gilray, Boucher, Gainsborough, &c. &c.

Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 8, [2] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

242. The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the art of drawing, painting, statuary ... : in two books : containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty as exhibited in ancient sculpture : with a new method of sketching heads, natural features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy ... : illustrated with seventeen plates explanatory of the professor's leading principals / translated from the Dutch by T. Cogan ...

The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the art of drawing, painting, statuary ... : in two books : containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty as exhibited in ancient sculpture : with a new method of sketching heads, natural features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy ... : illustrated with seventeen plates explanatory of the professor's leading principals / translated from the Dutch by T. Cogan ...

Creator:: Camper, Petrus, 1722–1789
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 175 p. [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

243. The young artist's companion : containing plain and easy directions for the acquirement of the art of drawing : calculated to enable youth with a little attention and practice, to become proficient in this very useful and ornamental accomplishment : to which are added general rules of perspective / by Joseph Barnes.

Creator:: Barnes, Joseph
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: iv, 46, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

244. The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons / by David Cox , author of 'A treatise on landscape-painting and effect in water-colours,' &c. &c.

The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons / by David Cox , author of 'A treatise on landscape-painting and effect in water-colours,' &c. &c.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [2], 15 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

245. The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the young of both sexes, or, A complete body of the polite and useful arts : ... Comprising ... I. The art of designing : II. Complete compendium of colours : III. Painting in miniature, or water colours : IV. Painting in oil colours: V. Painting in crayons : illustrated with 72 copper plate cuts ...

Date:: [1785?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

246. 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

247. The young colorist.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

248. The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.

The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.

Creator:: Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], ii, xiv, 71, [1] p., 23 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

249. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons : with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., [104] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

250. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., [104] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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203. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

205. The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

209. The elements of drawing : containing the first principles of light and shade, colouring, and perspective, with engravings, and coloured examples of tints / by George Marshall Mather.

210. The elements of drawing in all its branches.

211. 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.

217. 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.

219. The guide and companion to the "Lessons on art" / by J. D. Harding ; author of "The principles and practice of art;" "Elementary art, or The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained;" "Lessons on art;" "Lessons on trees;" &c. &c.

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

221. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

222. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

223. The new artist's manual : the complete guide to painting and drawing materials and techniques / by Simon Jennings.

224. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

227. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A. ...

232. The principles of drawing, design, and engraving; : by rules formed from nature and truth: With the late various improvements, and some new discoveries, never before published; being entirely the result of practical experience and self-observation / By an artist.

236. 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 ...

237. The rudiments of practical perspective : in which the representation of objects is described by two easy methods, one depending onthe plan of the object, the other on its dimensions and position ... / by Peter Nicholson ... ; illustrated by 38 plates ; elegantly engraved by Lowry.

246. 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.

247. The young colorist.

249. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons : with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

250. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

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203. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

205. The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

209. The elements of drawing : containing the first principles of light and shade, colouring, and perspective, with engravings, and coloured examples of tints / by George Marshall Mather.

210. The elements of drawing in all its branches.

211. 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.

217. 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.

219. The guide and companion to the "Lessons on art" / by J. D. Harding ; author of "The principles and practice of art;" "Elementary art, or The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained;" "Lessons on art;" "Lessons on trees;" &c. &c.

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

221. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

222. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

223. The new artist's manual : the complete guide to painting and drawing materials and techniques / by Simon Jennings.

224. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

227. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A. ...

232. The principles of drawing, design, and engraving; : by rules formed from nature and truth: With the late various improvements, and some new discoveries, never before published; being entirely the result of practical experience and self-observation / By an artist.

236. 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 ...

237. The rudiments of practical perspective : in which the representation of objects is described by two easy methods, one depending onthe plan of the object, the other on its dimensions and position ... / by Peter Nicholson ... ; illustrated by 38 plates ; elegantly engraved by Lowry.

246. 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.

247. The young colorist.

249. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons : with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

250. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.