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(OCoLC)ocn687546112
(CStRLIN)CTYR83-B872
ACL4469YL
581351
CtY-BA
CtY-BA
80971204
NC735
+.A7 1766
The artist's vade mecum :
being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes .../
collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.
The second edition,
with additions.
London :
... Sold by R. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, in Fleet-Street,
1766.
8 p., [100] leaves of plates :
chiefly ill. ;
31 cm.
BAC : British Art Center copy is extra-illustrated.
Plates by Anthony Walker, Paul Sandby, Henry Roberts, Simon François Ravenet, H. Stevens, and C.H. Hemerich; after Paul Sandby, Peter Tillemans, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, and Fenn.
T.p. printed in red and black.
Headpiece.
Drawing
Technique.
Drawing
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Drawing books.
rbgenr
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
rbprov
CtY-BA
Gapper, Richard Colston
Autograph.
Barrett,
Autograph, 1811.
Sayer, R.
Publisher.
Engraving
Specimens
1766.
Etching
Specimens
1766.
Chron.
1766.
Walker, Anthony,
1726-1765,
engraver.
796
Sandby, Paul,
1731-1809,
ill.
796
Roberts, Henry,
approximately 1710-approximately 1790,
engraver.
796
Ravenet, Simon François,
1706-1774,
engraver.
796
Stevens, H.,
engraver.
796
Hemmerich, Cornelius Heinrich,
engraver.
Tillemans, Peter,
1684-1734,
ill.
796
Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann,
1705-1759,
ill.
796
Fenn, C.,
ill.
796
Exhibited in:
The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
(Yale Center for British Art,
May 17, 2001-September 2, 2001)
(CtY-BA)104
CtY-BA
AC031297