An edition of The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art
(1764)
The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art
being a compleat drawing book, containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases, as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, &c. curiously engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd an introduction to drawing ...
The sixth edition.
by Gérard de Lairesse
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The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art: being a compleat drawing book, containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases, as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, &c. curiously engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd an introduction to drawing ...
1764, Printed for John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church Yard
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First published 1733. See ESTC.
Five plates by Henry Roberts after Antoine Watteau. Eight plates signed AM. One by Paul van Somer. Four by Wenceslas Hollar after Sebastian Franck, dated 1677. Three by François Vivares after Charles Natoire, Carle Vanloo and François Boucher.
ESTC N25699
Binding: marbled paper, back and corners in calfskin.
Ownership inscription of John James, Cambridge, January 1795.
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