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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
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1770
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18th century
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drawing book
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handbooks and manual
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Bennett, J. -- Publisher.
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Engraving -- Specimens -- [177–?].
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Etching -- Specimens -- [177–?].
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Sayer, R. -- Publisher.
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Whateley, Margaret W. -- Autograph.
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810, engraver.
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All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.
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Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
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[177-?]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
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Rare Books and Manuscripts