Form genre ss: Drawing books. / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: Watercolor painting -- Technique.

1. An illustrated lecture on sketching from nature in pencil and water colour : with hints on light and shadow, on a method of study, etc., to be practically illustrated, when possible, by a series of lessons out of doors / by George Stubbs, of Alexander Square, Brompton ; with seventeen plates in tinted and chromo-lithography.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: [between 1862 and 1868]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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

3. An introduction to the general art of drawing, wherein is set forth the grounds and properties, which of this infallible and judicious art are necessary to be known and understood ... with an illustration of 25 copper prints ... Likewise, An excellent treatise of the art of limning in which the true grounds and the perfect use of water-colours ... are ... taught. Formerly set out by ... Gerhard of Brugge. And now much augmented and amended, with some observations, touching ... the colouring and painting with water-colours. Truly tr. into English by J. L.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Introductory lessons with familiar examples in landscape : for the use of those who are desirous of gaining some knowledge of the pleasing art of painting in water colours : to which are added some clear and simple rules, exemplified by suitable sketches and more finished painting : as this work is chiefly intended for the mere beginner, the rules are both familiar and progressive : to which are added, instructions for executing transparencies, in a style both novel and easy / by James Roberts.

Creator:: Roberts, James, 1753–approximately 1809
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. 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 ...

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

6. Practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the Rev. Wm. Gilpin ... ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours, by John Heaviside Clark ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [31] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin ; revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d'après l'antique ; avec leurs mesures & proportions ; d'une description exacte des os & muscles du corps humain, & de leurs offices & usages ; avec une instruction facile pour apprendre à dessiner toutes ces figures, selon les différens aspects qu'elles peuvent avoir.

Creator:: Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522–ca. 1593
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: 72 p. : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 4 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: 40 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The first booke of drawing & limning.

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:: circa 1700?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (5-129, [1] leaves) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A series of progressive lessons : intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in water colours : accompanied with ten engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 25 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the Learner the various gradation through which a drawing passes from the outline to its finished state : this work, consisting of fourteen tinted lessons, imitative of the original drawings which were made for the purpose of it by John Laporte ...

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1811]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [1], 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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.

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

16. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:: 1634
Physical Description:: [8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

Date:: [approximately 1730]
Physical Description:: 11 leaves : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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 ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A practical essay on flower painting in water colours / by Edward Pretty.

Creator:: Pretty, Edward, 1792–1865
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 28 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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.

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

22. The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the young of both sexes, or, A complete body of the polite and useful arts : ... Comprising ... I. The art of designing : II. Complete compendium of colours : III. Painting in miniature, or water colours : IV. Painting in oil colours: V. Painting in crayons : illustrated with 72 copper plate cuts ...

Date:: [1785?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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.

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

24. A course of water-colour painting : with twenty-four coloured plates / from designs by R.P. Leitch.

Creator:: Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:: [1880?]
Physical Description:: 36 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the reader the various gradation through which a drawing passes : from the outline to the finished state : the intention of this little work is to enable young people, where an eminent Master cannot be had, to cultivate the delightful art of drawing in colours with system and advantage.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1807?]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours : exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner, including the elements of perspective, their application in sketching from nature and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the outline a finished picture, with observations on the study of nature and various other matters relative to the arts / by Francis Nicholson.

Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 91 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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.

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

28. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

Creator:: Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Rudiments of drawing, shadowing, and colouring flowers in water colours : contained in thirty-six instructive lessons, illustrated by twenty-nine plates from the outline of a single leaf progressively to the completion of a fine group : intended for beginners and students of this delightful art : with a description of colours used & the method of mixing them.

Date:: 1818 [i.e. 1817]
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., [1], 29 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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 ...

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

32. 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 ...

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

33. The Art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... With instructions for making transparent colours of every sort; partly from some curious personages in Holland, France, and Italy; but chiefly from a manuscript of the great Mr. Boyle ...

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 64 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of flower painting in water colours.

Creator:: Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The young artists assistant, or, A familiar introduction to the art of drawing, with instructions for colouring &c. / By J. Hassell, drawing master ; iIllustrated by plates displaying the first principles of the art, and a series of the passions, as expressed by the celebrated Le Brun.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: viii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. 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.

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

37. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Rukovodstvo kʺ risovanīi︠u︡ akvarelʹi︠u︡ ili vodi︠a︡nymi kraskami bezʺ pomoshchi uchiteli︠a︡ / sostavilʺ A.M. ; sʺ 9-i︠u︡ raskrashennymi tablit︠s︡ami.

Creator:: Maslov, Aleksandr
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: [4], IV, [2], 132 pages, [4], 5 leaves of plates ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:: 1797-1803
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:: [between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Rudiments of landscape drawing : in a series of easy examples / by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [2], 22 p., 13, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: 22 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The speculum, or, Art of drawing in water colours : and instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of a water-coloured drawing, familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive stages : with directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, etc. / by J.Hassell.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 56 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

Creator:: Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:: [1759]
Physical Description:: [1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Art of drawing and painting in water-colours : wherein the principles of drawing are laid down : after a natural and easy manner : and youth directed in every thing that relates to this useful art ... : to which are annexed, Familiar direction, whereby a stranger in the Art of drawing maybe readily taught to delineate any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... : with instructions for preparing, mixing, and managing all sorts of water-colours used in painting.

Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: 96 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: [10] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. 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.

9. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

10. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

11. The first booke of drawing & limning.

12. A series of progressive lessons : intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective.

13. A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in water colours : accompanied with ten engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

15. 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.

17. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

20. A practical essay on flower painting in water colours / by Edward Pretty.

21. 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.

23. 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.

24. A course of water-colour painting : with twenty-four coloured plates / from designs by R.P. Leitch.

28. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

30. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

31. 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 ...

32. 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 ...

34. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of flower painting in water colours.

35. The young artists assistant, or, A familiar introduction to the art of drawing, with instructions for colouring &c. / By J. Hassell, drawing master ; iIllustrated by plates displaying the first principles of the art, and a series of the passions, as expressed by the celebrated Le Brun.

36. 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.

37. A series of progressive lessons, intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

38. Rukovodstvo kʺ risovanīi︠u︡ akvarelʹi︠u︡ ili vodi︠a︡nymi kraskami bezʺ pomoshchi uchiteli︠a︡ / sostavilʺ A.M. ; sʺ 9-i︠u︡ raskrashennymi tablit︠s︡ami.

39. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

41. Rudiments of landscape drawing : in a series of easy examples / by W.H. Pyne.

42. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

44. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

46. Lessons for beginners in the fine art / by R. Ackermann.