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Work Type drawing book

Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1766.

1. The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

The compleat drawing-master; : containing a curious collection of examples, consisting of parts of the human body, academy figures, and Le Brun's passions of the soul, as they are expressed in the human countenance ...

Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 8 p., 105 leaves of plates on 85 leaves : ill. ; 27 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