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Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil / advocated and explained by J.D. Harding.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints Oversize 1860 Harding
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harding, James Duffield, 1798-1863.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drawing--Study and teaching.
- Drawing.
- Drawing--Technique.
- Pencil drawing--Technique.
- Pencil drawing.
- Line (Art).
- Figure drawing.
- Landscape drawing.
- Artists' materials.
- Shades and shadows in art.
- Genre:
- Manuals (Handbooks) -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
- Boards (Binding)
- Cloth bindings (Binding)
- Gold blocked bindings (Binding)
- Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 97 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St. Leicester Sq.
- Place of Publication:
- London : W. Kent & Co., Paternoster Row : Winsor & Newton, artists' colourmen, 38 Rathbone Place ; and all printsellers, booksellers, and artists' colourmen in the kingdom., [ca. 1860?]
- Notes:
- Mounted frontispiece.
- Placed variously signed by the author, Firth, and others.
- "The chief object of this work is, to explain the principles of elementary art, and to teach the student how to apply them by means of chalk or lead pencil"--Preface, p. iv.
- Cover reads: Harding's Elementary Art.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Original brown cloth cover over boards; gilt title and illustration on front cover; with blind-stamped decorative borders on front and rear panels.
- Athenaeum copy: T.P. Chandler library.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, NYCGAGP6585-B
- OCLC:
- 7830895
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