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Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Title(s):
The art of drawing and colouring from nature : flowers, fruit, and shells : to which is added correct directions for preparing the most brilliant colours for painting on velvet : with the mode of using them : also the new method of oriental tinting / by Nathaniel Whittock ... ; with plain and coloured drawings.
Published/Created:
London : Isaac Taylor Hinton, 1829.
Physical Description:
[4], 96 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC815 W53 1829+Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC815 W53 1829+Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC815 W53 1829+Copy 3 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC815 W53 1829+Copy 4 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates in uncolored and colored states.
Martin-Hardie p. 244.
BAC: British Art Center has four copies. Copy 1: Added inscription page. Circular engraved illustration of cherubs and fauna pasted in. Inscription in center: M. Macdonald, January 1, 1830. Copy 2: In original boards, as issued. Variation in placement of plates. Copy 3: Bound with: Art of drawing and colouring from nature: birds, beasts, fishes and insects / by Nathaniel Whittock. London : I.T.Hinton, 1830. Copy 4: Variation in placement of plates; placed at end of text.
Printed by I.T. Hinton.
Subject Terms:
Botanical illustration.
Color -- Study and teaching.
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
Hinton, I.T. -- Printer.
Hinton, Isaac Taylor -- Publisher.
Landscape painting -- Technique.
Macdonald, M. -- Autograph, January 1, 1830.
Painting -- Technique.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- 1829.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1829.
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