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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drawing--Technique--Early works to 1800.

Drawing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8p.,100 plates )

Edition:

The fifth edition. With many alterations and additions.

Other Title:

Complete drawing-book

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Robert Sayer, Map, Chart, and Printseller, No 53, Fleet-Street, 1786[i.e.1794]

Notes:

Plate 1 is an engraved titlepage : 'Principles of design, by Le Clerc. Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle', London.

Probably a re-issue.

The Le Clerc drawings are taken from his 'Divers desseins de figures', published in Paris in 1679.

With a half-title.

Plates 2-55 are printed 2 to a leaf.

Braces in imprint.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T121866.

OCLC:

642327426