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A treatise on painting , by Leonardo da Vinci. Translated from the original Italian. Illustrated with a great number of cuts. To Which IS Added The Life of the Author, And a Portrait from a Picture in the Duke Of Tuscany's Gallery At Florence.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.Date: 1796- E-books
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The complete drawing-book containing many curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Academy And Groups Of Figures. 3. Beasts And Birds Of Various Kinds. 4. Landscapes, Shipping, Flowers, &c. With several Outlines, Rendered easier to the Comprehension of Beginners than any Book of this Kind hitherto made public. The whole neatly engraved on one hundred octavo copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Rembrandt, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, Spilsbury, Callot and others the Best Masters. To which are annexed, proper instructions to youth, For their Improvement and Entertainment in this Art.
Date: 1786[i.e.1794]- E-books
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The draughtsman's assistant or, drawing made easy: wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar, in instructive lessons ... Neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates: ... By the author of The artist's assistant.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.Date: [1787?]- E-books
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For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practise the noble and commendable art of drawing, Colouring and Japanning, a new and compleat drawing-book; Consisting of Variety of Classes, viz. Whole Figures in divers Positions, and all the several Parts of the Human Body from Head to Foot; light, airy, loose Landskips; Perspective Views of Sea-Ports, Forts, Ruins, &c. Being the close study, for a Series of Years, of the late Mr. Lens, Miniature-Painter, and Drawing-Master to Christ's-Hospital. In Sixty-Two Copper-Plates, engraved by himself. in sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Design'd chiefly for young Beginners, and now first published from the Author's Originals, very necessary and useful for all Drawing-Schools, Boarding-Schools, &c. &c. To which is prefixed, an introduction to drawing; Containing a Description of the Instruments and their respective Uses, and the Materials proper for Drawing; Rules for managing the Pencil, and the best Method for attaining Perfection in the Art; with Instructions by which a young Practitioner shall be enabled to from a Judgment as well of his own Performances as those of others; with easy, proper, and necessary Lessons for him at his first Entrance. Also, the Names of the Colours used, with Instructions to temper and mix them, and fit them for Painting. Likewise, Colours for washing Landskips, or Prints of any Kind; with plain and easy Rules for the Ladies Japanning. Translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C. A. Du Fresnoy.
Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740.Date: 1751- E-books
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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 greatest Masters; Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down after a natural and easy manner; to which is prefix'd some general instructions, to form the Judgment of Young Beginners; by which that useful Art may be attained in a short Time without a Master.
Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]