The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours : exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner : including the elements of perspective, their application in drawing from nature, and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the sketch a finished picture : with observations on the study of nature, and various other matters relative to the arts / by Francis Nicholson.

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Nicholson, Francis, 1753-1844, The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours , 1823

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Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753-1844
Title(s):: The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours : exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner : including the elements of perspective, their application in drawing from nature, and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the sketch a finished picture : with observations on the study of nature, and various other matters relative to the arts / by Francis Nicholson.
Edition:: Second edition
Published/Created:: London : John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1823.
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 118 p., [4], 10 leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC790 .N534 1823+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC790 .N534 1823+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3443224
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars. Plates printed by C. Hullmandel.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 163
BAC: British Art Center has copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Has folded plates bound as double plates. Copy 2 in variant binding. Inscribed on t.p.: Marianne Snow. London-Jany. 5-/27.
Subject Terms:: Davison, Thomas -- Printer.
Drawing books -- Specimens.
Hullmandel, Charles -- Printer.
Landscape drawing -- Study and teaching.
Landscape painting -- Study and teaching.
Murray, John -- Publisher.
Snow, Marianne -- Provenance, July 5-/27. (copy 2)
Watercolor painting -- Study and teaching.
Form/Genre:: Lithographs -- 1823.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1823.
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