Author additional ss: Ravenet, Simon François, 1706–1774, engraver. / Subject Terms: Engraving -- Specimens -- 1762. - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

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Collection

• Rare Books and Manuscripts1

Date

• 17621

On-site Access

• Accessible by appointment in the Study Room1

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• Under Certain Circumstances1

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• Unavailable1

Classification

• Books1

Creator Gender

• unknown1

Period

• 18th century1

Work Type

• drawing book1

Subject Terms

• Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.1
• Drawing -- Technique.1
• Engraving -- Specimens -- 1762.[remove]1
• Etching -- Specimens -- 1762.1
• Sayer, R. -- Publisher.1

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• English1

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1. 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.

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Date:

1762

Physical Description:

8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.

Collection:

Rare Books and Manuscripts