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1. [Drawing book of wild boars].

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Date:
[ca. 1770?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Art of drawing and painting in water-colours : wherein the principles of drawing are laid down : after a natural and easy manner : and youth directed in every thing that relates to this useful art ... : to which are annexed, Familiar direction, whereby a stranger in the Art of drawing maybe readily taught to delineate any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... : with instructions for preparing, mixing, and managing all sorts of water-colours used in painting.

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Date:
1770
Physical Description:
96 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

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Date:
[between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[177-?]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts