Subject Terms: Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

101. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808–1889
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. 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

103. 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

104. 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.

Date:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Bowles's new preceptor in drawing ... Being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... On sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Designed chiefly for young beginners ... To which is prefixed, An introduction to drawing ... Translated from the French of monsieur Gerard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c.

Date:: [ca. 1799]
Physical Description:: 20 p. 62 plates on 42 leaves. 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Date:: [1808?]
Physical Description:: 67, 16 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. 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.

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

108. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. 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

110. An introduction to perspective, adapted to the capacities of youth, in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues, between the author's children : accompanied with illustrative plates, appropriate diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry : to which is added, A compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting : the whole comprising a body of information, adapted equally to the simplicity of youth, and to mental maturity ... / by Mr. Hayter ...

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: viii, 168 p., [1], XIV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

Creator:: Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. The young colorist.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

Creator:: Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: [8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. 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

117. 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

118. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

Creator:: Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773–1845
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

Creator:: Milbourne, Henry, 1781–ca. 1826
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1808-1811
Physical Description:: 4 v. plates 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. 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

123. Footsteps to drawing, according to the rules of perspective : explained in familiar dialogues, for the use of children and young persons, and illustrated by a series of progressive lessons in twenty plates of examples, calculated to combine a knowledge of perspective with the practice of drawing, and to lead the beginner imperceptibly to an acquaintance with the principal rules of that useful art. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., lecturer on perspective, &c.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4], 12 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 40 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. 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

126. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. Introduction to drawing ships.

Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 4 prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks approximately 21 x 29 cm, on sheets 25 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 18, 16, 8, 14, [2] p., 16, 16, 16, 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. The art of landscape drawing made easy : by specimens in the rual stile, intended for the use of those who wish to excell in that noble art : recommended to the use of schools.

Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 92 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

Creator:: Chalon, Henry Bernard, 1770–1849
Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 x 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 38 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, Elias
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: viii, 74, [2] p., 25 leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. 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

137. 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

138. 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.

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

139. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

Creator:: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771
Date:: [17--]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 35 plates on 34 leaves. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art : being a compleat drawing book containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips [sic], cattle, building, &c. curiously engraved on copper plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd, an introduction to drawing; containing an account of the instruments and materials used in drawing, and the method of managing them; also instruction to form the judgment of a young beginner, and direct his hand in practice, with early and proper lessons for him at the first entrance : also, early and proper lessons for a young beginner, with instructions to form his judgment and direct his practice / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerard de Lairesse and improved with abstracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description:: [2], 8, [2] p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. The principles of drawing, design, and engraving; : by rules formed from nature and truth: With the late various improvements, and some new discoveries, never before published; being entirely the result of practical experience and self-observation / By an artist.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 24 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Graphice : the use of the pen and pensil, or, The most excellent art of painting : in two parts / by William Sanderson.

Creator:: Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676
Date:: 1658
Physical Description:: [16], 87 p., [3] leaves of plates : ports ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. 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

144. Fifty plates of green-house plants, drawn and coloured from nature : with concise descriptions, and rules for their culture. Intended also for the improvement of young ladies in the art of drawing / by Henrietta Maria Moriarty.

Creator:: Moriarty, Henrietta Maria
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xii p., 50 leaves, [4] p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. 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

146. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Date:: [1804]
Physical Description:: 67 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. The amateur's portfolio, or, The new drawing magazine : being a selection of lessons calculated to make the art of drawing easy, and founded upon the principles of geometry and practical perspective / by James Merigot.

Creator:: Merigot, James
Date:: 1815-1816
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. 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

149. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... also the art of etching, and that of japanning ... to which is added, a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Book with groups of figures (by Pyne) for decorating landscapes.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

Creator:: Walton, John
Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 24 col. plates. 26 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 59 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Progressive fragments : drawn and etched in a broad and simple manner : with a comprehensive explanation of the principles of perspective for the use of young students in landscape-drawing / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [2], 2 p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. A practical treatise of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor / by Edward Edwards, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy.

Creator:: Edwards, Edward, 1738–1806
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: xii, 316, [2] p., [1], XL leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 376 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. 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

157. 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

158. A variety of tame & wild animals : studies from nature selected & arranged for the use and approbation of the young practitioner, the professor and the lover of design / by M.F. Quadal.

Creator:: Quadal, Martin Ferdinand, 1736–1808
Date:: May 25, 1793
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 31 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

Creator:: La Cave, P. (Peter)
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: v. : all ill. ; 29 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. A compendium of the theory and practice of drawing and painting : illustrated by the technical terms in art with practical observations on the essential lines and the forms connected with them ... : to which is added the practice of the pencil, chalk, tinted and water-colour drawing / by R. Dagley ...

Creator:: Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 79 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Drawing book of landscapes, shipping & animals : from designs by Westall, Girtin, Smith, Marlow, Wheatly, Ibbotson, Hill, Anderson / etched by W.P. Sherlock.

Creator:: Sherlock, William P., 1775–
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [3] parts, [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A. ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1813-[1815]
Physical Description:: 4 pt. (18, 16, 8, 14 p., 16, 16, 16, 16, leaves of plates) : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. The young artist's companion : containing plain and easy directions for the acquirement of the art of drawing : calculated to enable youth with a little attention and practice, to become proficient in this very useful and ornamental accomplishment : to which are added general rules of perspective / by Joseph Barnes.

Creator:: Barnes, Joseph
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: iv, 46, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. The rudiments of practical perspective : in which the representation of objects is described by two easy methods, one depending onthe plan of the object, the other on its dimensions and position ... / by Peter Nicholson ... ; illustrated by 38 plates ; elegantly engraved by Lowry.

Creator:: Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xviii, 122 p., [38] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laporte.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 43 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and desigining ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of three copper-plates.

Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: [4], 32, [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Artistic and picturesque groups for the embellishment of landscape : in a series of about one thousand subjects : comprising the most interesting accessories to rural and domestic scenery; shipping and craft; rural sports, pastimes and occupations; naval, military and civil employments; implements of trade, commerce and agriculture; etc. : the whole forming an excyclopaedia of illustration of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c., of Great Britain / accurately drawn from nature, and etched by W.H. Pyne ; and aquatinted by J. Hill.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [83] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. 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

169. 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

170. Bits for beginners / by Samuel Prout ; 21 plates with 100 studies of rustic scenery, picturesque old houses, cottages, ruins, castles, churches, porches, archways, bridges, waterfalls, etc.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [2] p., 24 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. 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

172. Grammigraphia; or, The grammar of drawing: a system of appearance, which, by easy rules, communicates its principles, and shews how it is to be presented by lines ... by William Robson ...

Creator:: Robson, William
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 150 p. incl. ill., 2 fold. plates. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. The compleat drawing-master : containing many curious specimens : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, buildings &c. neatly engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of the great masters : wherein the principles of drawing are laid down after a natural and easy manner : to which is prefixed some general instructions to form the judgement of young beginners : by which the useful art can be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 21 p., [102] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. A treatise on painting / by Leonardo da Vinci ; faithfully translated from the original Italian, and now first digested under proper heads, by John Francis Rigaud, Esq. ; Academician of The Royal Academy of Painting at London, and also of The Academia Clementina at Bologna, and The Royal Academy at Stockholm ; illustrated with twenty-three copper-plates, and other figures ; to which is prefixed a new life of the author, drawn up from authentic materials till now inaccessible, by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.S.

Creator:: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452–1519
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: [2], xcv, [1], 236 p., 22 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., diagrs., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

175. 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

176. The student's treasure : a new drawing book, consisting in a variety of etchings and engravings executed by Irish artists, after the following great masters, viz : Angelica, Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Wheatly, Vivaries, West, Bertrand, Rowlandson, Stubbs, Zucchi, Mortimer, Howit, Gilray, Boucher, Gainsborough, &c. &c.

Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 8, [2] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 24 p., VIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. Fores's new chalk drawing-book, of heads and academy figures / from original drawings by C.M. Metz ; engraved in exact imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Metz, C. M. (Conrad Martin), 1755–1827
Date:: 1795-1799
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 29 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. The 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, according to the practice of the best masters ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. 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

181. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. A select collection of landscapes for practice in drawing : with an outline to each / by the late Mr. James Malton.

Creator:: Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [29] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1795-1798
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. An epitome of painting : containing breife directions for drawing, painting, limning, and cryoons : wth. the choicest receipts for preparing the colours for limning and cryoons : likewise directions for painting on glass, as tis now in use amongst all persons of quality : and lastly, how to lay the ground, and work in mezzo tinto / all by Edward Luttrell, 1683.

Creator:: Luttrell, Edward
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([8], 68 p., with numerous blanks at end) : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Instruments of the imagination : a history of drawing instruments in Britain 1600-1850.

Date:: c2009
Physical Description:: iv, 136 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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101. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

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

106. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

107. 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.

108. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

111. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

112. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

113. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

114. The young colorist.

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

117. 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 ...

118. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

119. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

120. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

121. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

122. 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 ...

124. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

127. Introduction to drawing ships.

128. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

129. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

130. The art of landscape drawing made easy : by specimens in the rual stile, intended for the use of those who wish to excell in that noble art : recommended to the use of schools.

131. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

132. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

133. Process of sketching a landscape.

135. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

136. 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.

137. 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.

139. An introduction to the art of drawing, neatly engraved by G. Bickham: on thirty-six plates.

141. The principles of drawing, design, and engraving; : by rules formed from nature and truth: With the late various improvements, and some new discoveries, never before published; being entirely the result of practical experience and self-observation / By an artist.

142. Graphice : the use of the pen and pensil, or, The most excellent art of painting : in two parts / by William Sanderson.

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

144. Fifty plates of green-house plants, drawn and coloured from nature : with concise descriptions, and rules for their culture. Intended also for the improvement of young ladies in the art of drawing / by Henrietta Maria Moriarty.

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

146. Hints to young practitioners in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

147. The amateur's portfolio, or, The new drawing magazine : being a selection of lessons calculated to make the art of drawing easy, and founded upon the principles of geometry and practical perspective / by James Merigot.

148. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

149. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... also the art of etching, and that of japanning ... to which is added, a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

150. Book with groups of figures (by Pyne) for decorating landscapes.

151. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

152. Art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray.

153. Progressive fragments : drawn and etched in a broad and simple manner : with a comprehensive explanation of the principles of perspective for the use of young students in landscape-drawing / by Samuel Prout.

154. A practical treatise of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor / by Edward Edwards, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy.

155. Traité de la peinture au pastel ... par M.P.R. de C....C. à P. de L. ...

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

158. A variety of tame & wild animals : studies from nature selected & arranged for the use and approbation of the young practitioner, the professor and the lover of design / by M.F. Quadal.

159. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

161. Drawing book of landscapes, shipping & animals : from designs by Westall, Girtin, Smith, Marlow, Wheatly, Ibbotson, Hill, Anderson / etched by W.P. Sherlock.

162. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A. ...

164. The rudiments of practical perspective : in which the representation of objects is described by two easy methods, one depending onthe plan of the object, the other on its dimensions and position ... / by Peter Nicholson ... ; illustrated by 38 plates ; elegantly engraved by Lowry.

165. Characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laporte.

166. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and desigining ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of three copper-plates.

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

170. Bits for beginners / by Samuel Prout ; 21 plates with 100 studies of rustic scenery, picturesque old houses, cottages, ruins, castles, churches, porches, archways, bridges, waterfalls, etc.

171. 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.

172. Grammigraphia; or, The grammar of drawing: a system of appearance, which, by easy rules, communicates its principles, and shews how it is to be presented by lines ... by William Robson ...

177. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

178. Fores's new chalk drawing-book, of heads and academy figures / from original drawings by C.M. Metz ; engraved in exact imitation of chalk.

179. The 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, according to the practice of the best masters ...

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

181. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

182. A select collection of landscapes for practice in drawing : with an outline to each / by the late Mr. James Malton.

183. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

185. Instruments of the imagination : a history of drawing instruments in Britain 1600-1850.