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.
Published / Created:
London : ... Sold by R. Sayer, at the Golden-Buck, in Fleet-Street, 1762.
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates by Simon François Ravenet, Timothy Roberts, H. Stevens, John June, Peter Paul Benazech, C.H. Hemmerich, J. Couse, Henry Roberts, James Roberts; after George Bickham, Anthony Walker, Elliott, Peter Tillemans, C. Fenn, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, Jean Pillement, Chat, and Jean Baptiste Chatelain.
Ravenet, Simon François, 1706-1774, engraver. | Roberts, Timothy, engraver. | Stevens, H., engraver. | June, John. | Benazech, Peter Paul, ca. 1730-ca. 1783, engraver. | Hemmerich, Cornelius Heinrich, engraver. | Couse, J., engraver. | Roberts, Henry, approximately 1710-approximately 1790, engraver. | Roberts, James, 1725-1799, engraver. | Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, ill. | Walker, Anthony, 1726-1765, ill. | Haynes, William P., ill. | Tillemans, Peter, 1684-1734, ill. | Fenn, C., ill. | Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann, 1705-1759, ill. | Pillement, Jean, 1727?-1808, ill. | Community Homophile Association of Toronto, ill. | Chatelain, Jean Baptiste Claude, 1710?-1771?, ill.