Bowles's complete drawing-book, containing an extensive collection of examples on a great variety of subjects, for the improvement of youth, in the pleasant and useful art of drawing, elegantly engraved on one hundred copper-plates, In The Following Method: I. Lessons adapted to lead the Pupil gradually from the First Practice on Parts of the Human Body, to the Drawing of the Whole Academy Figures, in Fifty Plates, by Sebastian Le Clerc. II. Examples of Landscapes sketched in Outlines for the first Attempts of the Pupil, and finished with Shadings for his after Practice. In several Original Plates, by Chatelaine, Viveres, Vansomer, &c. III. Designs in Sea Pieces; many Examples in Horses, Cattle, Fowls and Flowers, after the best Masters, on each Subject. To which are annexed. Introductory Rules for the Use of Learners; with an Account of the Instruments and Materials used in Drawing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Technique--Early works to 1800.

Art.

Genre:

Drawing books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],4p.,100plates )

Edition:

The eighth edition, corrected and greatly improved with additions.

Other Title:

Bowles's complete drawing-book,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for and sold by the proprietor Carington Bowles, At his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69, in St. Paul's Church Yard, [1800?]

Notes:

The plates are printed for Bowles and Carver.

Braces in imprint.

Price from imprint: price 7s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T132565.

OCLC:

642372064