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1. 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

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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Day-light : a recent discovery in the art of painting : with hints on the philosophy of the fine arts, and on that of the human mind, as first dissected by Emanuel Kant / by Henry Richter.

Day-light : a recent discovery in the art of painting : with hints on the philosophy of the fine arts, and on that of the human mind, as first dissected by Emanuel Kant / by Henry Richter.
Creator:
Richter, Henry, 1772–1857
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[2], ix, [1], 67, [1] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours : with directions how to prepare and use them : including succinct hints on drawing and painting.

A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours : with directions how to prepare and use them : including succinct hints on drawing and painting.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1801]
Physical Description:
24 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming, which teacheth the order in drawing & tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes ... never put in printe before this time.

A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming, which teacheth the order in drawing & tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes ... never put in printe before this time.
Date:
1573
Physical Description:
xii l. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

10. A treatise on the art of painting, and the composition of colours, containing instructions for all the various processes of painting. Together with observations upon the qualities and ingredients of colours. Translated from the French of M. Constant de Massoul.

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Creator:
Massoul, Constant de
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
1 p.., v, [7]-242 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

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Creator:
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704–1767
Date:
1756
Physical Description:
2 p.., [iii]-v, 64 p. VI plates. 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Art's master-piece: or, A companion for the ingenious, of either sex. In two parts. I. The art of limning and painting in oil ... II. The art of making glass of crystal ...

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Date:
[171-?]
Physical Description:
144 p. incl. front. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. [Claude glass].

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Date:
[ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:
1 Claude glass : dark-tinted mirror, in a hinged paper-covered wooden case ; 15 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples / by Samuel Prout, F. S. A., painter in water colours in ordinary to Her Majesty.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 16 p., [20] leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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 ...

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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

16. Miniatura; or, The art of limning, by Edward Norgate; ed. from the manuscript in the Bodleian library and collated with other manuscripts by Martin Hardie.

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Creator:
Norgate, Edward, d. 1650
Date:
1919
Physical Description:
xxix, 111, [1] p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

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Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

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

19. Chromatography, or, A treatise on colours and pigments : and of their powers in painting, &c. / by George Field.

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Creator:
Field, George, 1777?-1854
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
xix, 276 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Field's chromatography. A treatise on colours and pigments for the use of artists / modernized by J. Scott Taylor ...

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Creator:
Field, George, 1777?-1854
Date:
1885
Physical Description:
viii, 207, [1], 4 p., 4 leaves of col. plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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.

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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

22. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

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

23. [Claude glass].

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Date:
[ca. 1880?]
Physical Description:
1 Claude glass : dark-tinted mirror, in a hinged cloth-covered wooden case ; 24 x 15 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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.

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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

25. Practical guide to scene painting and painting in distemper : with illustrations drawn by the author.

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Creator:
Lloyds, F
Date:
[1875]
Physical Description:
vi, 97 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 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 ...

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

27. On painting in oil and water colours, for landscape and portraits : including the preparation of colours, vehicles, oils &c., methods of painting in wax, or encaustic : also on the chemical properties and permanency of colours, and on the best methods of cleaning and repairing old paintings, &c. ... / by T. H. Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
viii, 159 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26-28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. [Claude glass].

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Date:
[ca. 1860-1870?]
Physical Description:
1 Claude glass : dark-tinted mirror, in a hinged cloth-covered wooden case ; 24.5 x 19 x 2.5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. 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 ...

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

30. Transparency painting on linen : for decorative purposes, panoramic and dioramic effects, ornamental blinds, &c., with instructions for the preparation of the linen, the combination and transfer of ornamental designs, combined surfaces, &c. / by W. Williams ; with illustrations by Charles Sibley ; engraved by Dalziel.

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Creator:
Williams, W
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
viii, [9]-52 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The artist, or, Young ladies' instructor in ornamental painting, drawing, &c. ... By B.F. Gandee ...

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Creator:
Gandee, B. F
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
3 p.., [v]-vii, 253, [3] p. col. front., ill., plates, diagrs. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The young ladies school of arts : containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, shell-work, gilding ... : also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never published / by Mrs. Hannah Robertson.

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Creator:
Robertson, Hannah
Date:
1777
Physical Description:
xx, [2], 182 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The art of drawing and colouring from nature : flowers, fruit, and shells : to which is added correct directions for preparing the most brilliant colours for painting on velvet : with the mode of using them : also the new method of oriental tinting / by Nathaniel Whittock ... ; with plain and coloured drawings.

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Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[4], 96 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Introduction to the art of painting in oil colours. By J. Cawse ... With plates, explanatory of the different palettes used in the progress of painting a portrait or landscape.

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Creator:
Cawse, John, 1779–1862
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-22 p. ill., 7 col. plates. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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 ...

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

36. Grammar to flower-painting : being a concise, plain, and easy method for amateurs to attain the rudiments of the science without the help of a master : in ten plates, coloured / from drawings by J. Sillett.

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Creator:
Sillett, James, 1764–1840
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
[10] leaves : all ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The painter's primer : in familiar rhyme, without notes : containing the most approved methods for beginners in the art progressively laid down, and peculiarly adapted for the purpose of a Vade-Mecum to practitioners in every branch of painting / by an Experienced Artist.

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Creator:
Experienced artist
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], 43 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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.

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Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
4 pt. : col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The art of painting in miniature ... Translated from the original French. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest colours ... II. Some ... lessons for the art of drawing ... III. The usefulness and benefit of prints.

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Date:
1752
Physical Description:
150 p. 2 plates. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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.

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

41. Arts companion, or A new assistant for the ingenious, in 3 pts. Pt. 1 containing the art of drawing in perspective ... Pt. II containing the art of drawing and painting in water-colours ... Pt. III containing the art of painting in miniature ... to which are added directions for shadowing, stipling, &c. ... likewise the preparation of an excellent polish and shell: the whole taken from some of the best Italian and other masters.

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Date:
1749
Physical Description:
172 p. ill. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The art of painting portraits, landscapes, animals, draperies, satins, &c. in oil colours : practically explained by coloured palettes : with an appendix on cleaning and restoring ancient paintings on panel or canvas / by John Cawse.

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Creator:
Cawse, John, 1779–1862
Date:
1840
Physical Description:
47 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

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Creator:
Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
28 p., [1], 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Sketches at home and abroad : hints on the acquirement of freedom of execution and breadth of effect in landscape painting : to which are added simple instructions on the proper uses and application of colour / by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A compendium of the theory and practice of drawing and painting : illustrated by the technical terms in art : with practical observations on the essential lines and the forms connected with them : adapted to the earliest state of instruction for the use of school or private tuition : to which is added, the practice of the pencil, chalk, tinted, and water-colour drawing / by R. Dagley ; author of "Select gems from the antique".

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Creator:
Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
xvi, 79 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Practical hints on portrait painting: illustrated by examples from the works of Vandyke and other masters. By John Burnet ...

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Creator:
Burnet, John, 1784–1868
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
iv p., 1 l., 54 p. XII pl. (8 port.) incl. front. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Practical hints on composition in painting : illustrated by examples from the great masters of the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools / by John Burnet.

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Creator:
Burnet, John, 1784–1868
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[1], 31 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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.

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

49. Practical hints on composition in painting. Illustrated by examples from the great masters of the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools. By John Burnet ...

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Creator:
Burnet, John, 1784–1868
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
4 p. ., [7]-31 p. 9 plates. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Perspective explained in a series of dialogues between the author's children George, Ann, Eliza and John.

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Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
circa 1820
Physical Description:
1 v. (120 p.) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts