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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. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Date:: [177-?]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

Creator:: Lamy, Bernard, 1640-1715
Date:: MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:: [16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Principles of perspective : with a sketch of some Irish antiquities : and a few thoughts on rustic embellishment and the picturesque : as connected, and contrasted, with each other.

Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [27], 24-30 pages, [1], 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Landscape views].

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching ; 17 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768-1838
Date:: not before 1825
Physical Description:: 1 volume (24 leaves) ; 29 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. M. Stanley's drawing book.

Creator:: Stanley, Montague, 1809-1844
Date:: [1841?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all illustrations ; 26 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799-1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 54 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

Creator:: Dighton, Denis, 1792-1827
Date:: May, 1820
Physical Description:: [6] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761-1839
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

14. Bacon's Excelsior first grade drawing cards : freehand for standard V / designed by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman.

Creator:: Steeley, Frank
Date:: [1893?]
Physical Description:: 36 cards : illustrations ; each 19 x 14 cm, in slipcase 20 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. An epitome of perspective / by John Wells, drawing master to the school of Christ's Hopsital.

Creator:: Wells, John, 1757 or 1758-1843
Date:: 1817]
Physical Description:: [2], 10 leaves : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811-1844
Date:: [ca.1825]
Physical Description:: [6] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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:: 1820
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons, with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals, &c. / illustrated by upward of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock, author of "The decorative painter's guide," illustrations of York, Sussex, Surrey. &c. &c.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., 104 leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714
Date:: [between 1726 and 1736]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A.
Date:: [between 1906 and 1916]
Physical Description:: 60, 64 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Scenery of the river Dart : being a series of thirty-five views representing the most interesting features in its course, from its source in the wildest & most uncultivated parts of Dartmoor, to its mouth in the English Channel : executed to form as nearly as possible facsimilies of the drawings, and therefore calculated not only to interest the admirers of nature, and those unacquainted with the country, but also to form a set of studies for the learners of landscape drawing / drawn and engraved by F.C. Lewis, engraver to H.R.H. Prince Leopold and H.R.H. the late Princess Charlotte.

Creator:: Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779-1856
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves, 35 leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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 designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 31 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the late 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:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [34] p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. [Drawing book of wild boars].

Date:: [ca. 1770?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: ii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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

29. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings, after the most celebrated heads in the cartoons at the Queen's palace : to which are now added, the outlines of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing : and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763-1770
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: 21, [1] pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 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

31. Pictures for painting / by Kate Greenaway ; with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.

Creator:: Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
Date:: [1919]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

Creator:: Cheesman, Thomas, 1760-
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: [11] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602-1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780-1867
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 28 p., [1], 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A series of practical instructions in landscape painting in water colours : containing directions for sketching from nature, and the application of perspective, progressive lessons in drawing from the tinted sketch to the finished subject, and examples of the introduction of figures, architectural subjects, particular effects, &c. as connected with landscape scenery / by John Clark ; illustrated by fifty-five views from nature, descriptive objects, &c. mounted in imitation of drawings.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770-1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The English academy : a drawing book containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies : with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning ... / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

Creator:: P. L
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Every youth's drawing book : containing the whole art of drawing, the principles of perspective, with clear and ample instructions for portrait, flower, miniature, and landscape painting, in oil and in water colours, engraving on wood, casting, medalling, bronzing, mezzotint scraping, modelling, etc. : illustrated with above 60 engravings on wood and copper.

Date:: MDCCCXXVIII [1828]
Physical Description:: 64 p., [31] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Orme's Pocket sketch book : containing studies from nature : to consist of landscape, figures, animals, &c. &c. : to be continued in numbers : price 2s. 6d. each in black and 5s. in colours : 12 numbers will form one pocket volume.

Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: v. : all ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721-1820
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 6, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

Date:: [between 1782 and 1807]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

Creator:: Varley, John, 1778-1842
Date:: 1818]
Physical Description:: [2] double plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Sketching from nature in water-colours / by Aaron Penley, author of "The English school of painting in water-colours," "Elements of perspective," "A system of painting in water-colours," etc. etc. ; with illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings.

Creator:: Penley, Aaron, 1807-1870
Date:: [1875]
Physical Description:: [2], 36 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Elements of graphic arts. Vol. I / by Archibald Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: 16 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

Date:: C.I. Hood Co.,
Physical Description:: 21 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

46. 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:: 1762
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. First drawing book.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 11 pages, XLVIII leaves of plates ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

Date:: [176-?]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves : all ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

Creator:: Terry, Garnet
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 26, [1] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The grammar of form.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808-1876
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: XXIV leaves : all ill. : 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

Creator:: Brown, Richard, architect
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 ., [vii]-xii, 52 p. 25 plates (part col.) 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. 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

53. 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

54. The world in miniature : consisting of groups of figures, for the illustration of landscape-scenery / drawn and etched by T. Rowlandson.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [40] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: [1], 24 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Elementary studies of river craft and shipping / by A. Montague.

Creator:: Montague, Alfred, d. 1883
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. 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

58. 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

59. 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

60. The art of portrait painting in oil colours : with observations on setting and painting the figure / by Henry Murray.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: iv, 68 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Heads representing the various passions of the soul : as they are expressed in the human countanance / drawn by that great master Monsr. Le Brun and finally engraved in twenty folio copper plates, nearly the size of life.

Creator:: Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 20 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. 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

63. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

Creator:: Morland, George, 1763-1804
Date:: 1796-1797
Physical Description:: 2 pts. (6, 4 leaves) : all ill. ; 23 x 32-27 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Studies from nature : arranged as progressive lessons for instruction in the art of drawing landscape / drawn and engraved by William Orme.

Creator:: Orme, William, active 1797-1819
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [22] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A new drawing book.

Date:: [175-?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

Creator:: Orme, William, active 1797-1819
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [2], [19], [2], 3 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. [Flower groups].

Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. 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

69. 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

70. 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

71. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

Creator:: Russell, John, 1745-1806
Date:: MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:: [8], 46 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. 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

73. Orme's New sketch book.

Date:: [1801?]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Sketches illustrative of picturesque scenery of Norfolk / drawn and engraved by Robt. Dixon.

Creator:: Dixon, R. J., 1780-1815
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [36] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Brush drawing as applied to natural forms and common objects : over 300 examples in monochrome and colour / by May Mallam.

Creator:: Mallam, May
Date:: 1905
Physical Description:: [48] p. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [2], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

Creator:: Bluck, John (Printmaker)
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: [4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Sketches at home and abroad / by Samuel Prout, F.S.A.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [26] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

Creator:: Powell, Joseph, 1780-1834
Date:: 1820-1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : all illustrations ; 23 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

Creator:: Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. 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

83. A New drawing book.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

Creator:: Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683
Date:: [ca. 1790]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. 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

86. Sundry landscapes for learners.

Creator:: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778
Date:: 1775
Physical Description:: 5 plates : engravings ; 18 cm, mounted on 27 cm album leaves
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A new drawing-book of out-lines &c. : very proper for the first-practice of all who are willing to excell in that noble-art = Nouveau livres pour apprendre les premiers principes du dessein : tres-utile à ceux qui souhaitent d'exceller dans ce bel art.

Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm. x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: ii, 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29-33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. 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

90. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series C. Landscape drawing.

Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: [12] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Petty's standard drawing book.

Date:: [approximately 1891]
Physical Description:: 13 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. [Drawing book of trees]

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761-1839
Date:: 1821.]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. 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

94. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A collection of figures and conversations, cattle, birds, beasts and landskips : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : from Varnet, Boucher, Bergham, Barlow, &c.

Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [1], 66, 6 leaves : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Laurie's standard copy books.

Date:: [1877]
Physical Description:: [20] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

Creator:: Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772-1839
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [34] leaves plates : all ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The young artists instructor.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811-1844
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [4], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Etchings of rustic figures : for the embellishment of landscape / by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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4. Principles of perspective : with a sketch of some Irish antiquities : and a few thoughts on rustic embellishment and the picturesque : as connected, and contrasted, with each other.

6. [Landscape views].

7. 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.

8. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

9. M. Stanley's drawing book.

10. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

11. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

12. Process of sketching a landscape.

14. Bacon's Excelsior first grade drawing cards : freehand for standard V / designed by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman.

15. An epitome of perspective / by John Wells, drawing master to the school of Christ's Hopsital.

16. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

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

19. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

20. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

21. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

22. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

24. 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 designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

26. [Drawing book of wild boars].

27. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

31. Pictures for painting / by Kate Greenaway ; with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.

32. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

34. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

38. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

39. Orme's Pocket sketch book : containing studies from nature : to consist of landscape, figures, animals, &c. &c. : to be continued in numbers : price 2s. 6d. each in black and 5s. in colours : 12 numbers will form one pocket volume.

40. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

41. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

42. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

43. Sketching from nature in water-colours / by Aaron Penley, author of "The English school of painting in water-colours," "Elements of perspective," "A system of painting in water-colours," etc. etc. ; with illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings.

44. Elements of graphic arts. Vol. I / by Archibald Robertson.

45. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

47. First drawing book.

48. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

49. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

50. The grammar of form.

51. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

54. The world in miniature : consisting of groups of figures, for the illustration of landscape-scenery / drawn and etched by T. Rowlandson.

55. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

56. Elementary studies of river craft and shipping / by A. Montague.

58. 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.

59. 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.

60. The art of portrait painting in oil colours : with observations on setting and painting the figure / by Henry Murray.

61. Heads representing the various passions of the soul : as they are expressed in the human countanance / drawn by that great master Monsr. Le Brun and finally engraved in twenty folio copper plates, nearly the size of life.

62. The first booke of drawing & limning.

63. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

64. Studies from nature : arranged as progressive lessons for instruction in the art of drawing landscape / drawn and engraved by William Orme.

65. A new drawing book.

66. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

67. [Flower groups].

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

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

71. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

72. 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.

73. Orme's New sketch book.

74. Sketches illustrative of picturesque scenery of Norfolk / drawn and engraved by Robt. Dixon.

75. Brush drawing as applied to natural forms and common objects : over 300 examples in monochrome and colour / by May Mallam.

76. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

77. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

78. Sketches at home and abroad / by Samuel Prout, F.S.A.

79. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

80. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

81. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

83. A New drawing book.

84. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

85. 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.

86. Sundry landscapes for learners.

87. A new drawing-book of out-lines &c. : very proper for the first-practice of all who are willing to excell in that noble-art = Nouveau livres pour apprendre les premiers principes du dessein : tres-utile à ceux qui souhaitent d'exceller dans ce bel art.

88. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

90. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series C. Landscape drawing.

91. Petty's standard drawing book.

92. [Drawing book of trees]

94. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

95. A collection of figures and conversations, cattle, birds, beasts and landskips : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : from Varnet, Boucher, Bergham, Barlow, &c.

96. Laurie's standard copy books.

97. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.