The artist's vade mecum , 1762
- Title(s):
- 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.
- Published/Created:
- London : ... Sold by R. Sayer, at the Golden-Buck, in Fleet-Street, 1762.
- Physical Description:
- 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsNC735 A7 1762+ Oversize[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/581350
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Plates by Simon François Ravenet, Timothy Roberts, H. Stevens, John June, Peter Paul Benazech, C.H. Hemmerich, J. Couse, Henry Roberts, James Roberts; after George Bickham, Anthony Walker, Elliott, Peter Tillemans, C. Fenn, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, Jean Pillement, Chat, and Jean Baptiste Chatelain.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter leather and marbled boards. A variety of grass specimens, laid in, are removed to an accompanying folder. - Subject Terms:
- Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.Drawing -- Technique.Engraving -- Specimens -- 1762.Etching -- Specimens -- 1762.Sayer, R. -- Publisher.
- Form/Genre:
- Drawing books.
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