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1. 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

2. A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.
Creator:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

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Creator:
Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
[11] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[16] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
20 p., [12] leaves of plates. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Studies of flowers from nature ... : a selection of subjects from the choicest exotics, painted after nature, with a correct outline of each and instructions for producing a facsimile of the finished drawing / by Miss Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Penelope
Date:
[ca. 1818]
Physical Description:
3 p., [20] leaves, [41] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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.

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Creator:
Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:
1812
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[18] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts