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.

  • Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.
Date:
[1800?]
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Publication/Creation

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?]

Physical description

[2],4p.,100plates ; 40.

Edition

The eighth edition, corrected and greatly improved with additions.

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ESTC T132565

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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