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Form genre ss Drawing books.

Work Type extra-illustrated copies (provenance)

1. 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.

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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

2. 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.

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Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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 cartons at Hampton-Court : to which are now added, the outline 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.

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Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [2], 13, [2], 14-24 pages, XI, [1], 45 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts