The art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down after a natural and easy manner; and Youth directed in every Thing that relates to this useful Art, according to the Practice of the best Masters. To which are annexed, familiar directions, whereby a Stranger in the Art of Drawing may be readily taught to delineate any View or Prospect with the utmost Exactness; of colouring any Print or Drawing in the most elegant Manner; and of taking off Medals, &c. instantly, after a Variety of different Ways never before made public; intermixed with curious Receipts for the Use of Painters, Statuaries, Founders, &c. With instructions for preparing, mixing, and managing all sorts of water-colours used in Painting, so as to represent Nature in the greatest Perfection.
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, [1795?]
Physical description
80p.,plates ; 120.
Edition
The eighth edition, corrected; and, besides other improvements, illustrated with copper-plates.
References note
ESTC T226270
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.