The principles of drawing : or, an easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed 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, Building, &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; Containing an Account of the Instruments and Materials used in Drawing, and the Method of managing them; also Instructions to form the Judgment of a young Beginner, and direct his Hand in Practice, with easy and proper Lessons for him at the first Entrance. Also, Easy and Proper Lessons for a Young Beginner, with Instructions to form his Judgment and direct his Practice. Translated from the French of Monsieur Gerard de Lairesse, and improved with abstracts from C. A. Du Fresnoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drawing--Study and teaching.

Drawing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],8,[2]p.,plates )

Edition:

The fifth edition.

Other Title:

Principles of drawing

Place of Publication:

London : printed, and sold by Thomas Bowles, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and John Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, MDCCLII [1752]

Notes:

Titlepage in red and black.

In the middle of the sequence of plates is a letterpress divisional titlepage for part 2.

A translation of Gérard de Lairesse's 'Les principes du dessein'.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T212760.

OCLC:

642534296