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Title(s):
Buchanan's initiatory drawing lessons : for the use of writing academies & private families : engraved series, to be copied with the pen.
Additional Title(s):
Initiatory drawing lessons
Edition:
Second edition.
Published/Created:
Edinburgh : Published by R. Buchanan, 20, George Street, and D. Lizars, 5 St. David Street; G. B. Whittaker, London; and W. Curry, Jun. & Co. Dublin, 1828.
Physical Description:
4 p., 43 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC735 .B83 1828+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC735 .B83 1828+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engravings by W.H. Lizars, R. Buchanan, J. Stuart, and J. Swan; after J. Stuart, Eliza Buchanan, G. Buchanan, C. Buchanan, and W. McWhirter.
BAC: British Art Center has two copies, both bound in marbled paper boards. Illustrated label mounted on front cover. Copy 1 with bookplate of Dorothea Paget. Both copies have bound with it: Lecture (delivered in Glasgow) on the usefulness, practicability, and method of teaching initiatory drawing, or sketching, as a common branch of education. Greenock, 1830.
Subject Terms:
Buchanan, R. -- Publisher.
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
Drawing -- Technique.
Drawing books -- Specimens.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1828.
Etching -- Specimens -- 1828.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Lizars, D., -- Publisher.
Paget, Dorothea -- Bookplate.
W. Curry, Jun. & Co. -- Publisher.
Whittaker, G. B. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Drawing books.
Contributors:
Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859, engraver.
Buchanan, Robert, engraver.
Swan, Joseph, 1796-1872, engraver.
Stuart, James, 1779-1849, ill.
Buchanan, Eliza, ill.
Buchanan, C., ill.
McWhirter, W., ill.
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