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Peacham, Henry,
approximately 1576-approximately 1643.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012382
The first booke of drawing & limning.
First booke of drawing and limning
Great Britain,
circa 1700?
1
v. (5-129, [1] leaves) :
ill. ;
15 cm.
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The author and illustrator Henry Peacham wrote some of the earliest instructional works on graphic arts in English intended specifically for non-professionals, or gentlemen. The first of these publications was The art of drawing with the pen (London, 1606), a treatise on drawing and watercolors. In 1612, this work was expanded and retitled Graphice. The work was reissued the same year, with a new frontispiece, as The gentleman's exercise. Further expansions appeared in 1634 and 1661. Cf. Levy, F.J. "Henry Peacham and The Art of Drawing." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. Vol. 37 (1974), pp. 174-190.
Manuscript abridgment, by an unidentified copyist, of Henry Peacham's Graphice, or his The gentleman's exercise (nearly identical texts first published in 1612). The volume is inscribed "Will Osborn's book", but it is unclear if Osborn is responsible for its production. The text is written in pen and brown ink throughout, in an early 18th-century hand, perhaps by a single copyist. The manuscript includes numerous illustrations, also copied from originals in the printed versions. Illustrations are in pen and brown ink, with occasional simple color washes. All leaves are numbered and ruled, with running titles. The first 100 leaves contain writing on the recto only. Leaves 101-122 also have text on the verso, written upside down (i.e., from back to front). The final leaf contains the only text not copied from Peacham, on "To make wax flowers" and "To make henns lay eggs all ye winter".
Most sections of Peacham's text are represented in an abridged form in the manuscript, although the order of chapters is slightly transposed. The copyist omits the introductory chapters in which Peacham defends the practice of drawing by gentlemen. He also omits portions of Peacham's text on allegory. Present are all of the instructional chapters. These includes instructions on drawing faces and figures, beasts and birds, landscapes, drapery, and diapering, along with shadow and perspective. The middle section of the text offers recipes for gums, gilding, and numerous colors of paint. Also copied is a chapter on "The manner of annealing & painting upon glass". The final portion of the manuscript text concerns the "blazon of armes", with assorted notes and illustrations on heraldry. This portion was first published in the 1612 versions of Peacham's work.
Title from caption title at head of leaf 6.
Bound in sprinkled calf.
Henry Peacham, The First Booke of Drawing & Limning. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
Peacham, Henry,
1576?-1643?
Art of drawing with the pen, and limming in water colours.
Peacham, Henry,
1576?-1643?
Graphice.
Peacham, Henry,
1576?-1643?
Gentleman's exercise.
Osborn, William.
Glass painting and staining
Technique
Early works to 1800.
Heraldry
Early works to 1800.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105576
Landscape drawing
Technique
Early works to 1800.
Paint mixing
Early works to 1800.
Workshop recipes
Early works to 1800.
Watercolor
Technique
Early works to 1800.
Drawing
Technique.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85039423
Drawing
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Painting
Technique.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096675
Painting
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Watercolor painting
Technique.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113407
Watercolor painting
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
lcgft
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026109
Drawing books.
rbgenr
Ink drawings.
gmgpc
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/graphicMaterials/tgm005399
Wash drawings.
gmgpc
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/graphicMaterials/tgm011511
Osborn, William
Autograph.