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1. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

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Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Artist's repository, or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts : exhibiting the principles, and explaining the practice in all their various branches ....

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Date:
1813
Physical Description:
4 v. in 8 : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The artists assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, metzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... Methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners.

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Date:
1786
Physical Description:
48 p. plates, port. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

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Creator:
Walker, John Rawson, 1796–1873
Date:
[ca. 1847]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The artist's assistant; or School of science; forming a practical introduction to the polite arts: in painting, drawing, designing, perspective, engraving, colouring, &c., with ample directions for japanning, enamelling, gilding, silvering, lacquering, &c. and a valuable selection of miscellaneous secrets.

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Date:
1801
Physical Description:
xvi, 307 p. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching in copper and steel, engraving, metzotinto scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... : containing the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts : methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners : illustrated with suitable examples, engraved on copper.

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
48 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Bowles's Artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, and in water-colours, and on silk or satin ... Methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners. By the author of Bowles's Art of painting in water-colours.

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Date:
1787
Physical Description:
64 p. (p. 58-64 advertisements) plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, metzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners ...

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Date:
1801
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 40 p. front. (port.) fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The artist's assistant, in the study and practice of mechanical sciences. Calculated for the improvement of genius. Illustrated with copper-plates.

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Date:
[17--?]
Physical Description:
288, iv p. ill. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Elementary view of the fine arts, containing the principles of drawing, painting in general, crayon painting, oil painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, designing, colouring, engraving, &c, &c. By William Enfield ... Assisted by eminent professional gentlemen.

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Creator:
Enfield, William, 1741–1797
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
1 p.., 318, [2] p. front., 12 plates. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The complete guide to the fine arts : containing instructions in the art of drawing, oil colour painting, water colour painting, perspective, flower painting, miniature painting, oriental tinting, crayon painting, lithographic drawing, engraving on wood and copper, sketching from nature, etc., etc., valuable recipes, etc.

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Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[6], 208 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Arts treasury: or, A profitable and pleasing invitation to the lovers of ingenuity. Contained in many extraordinary experiments, rareties, and curious inventions ...

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Creator:
White, John, -1671
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
6 p. ., 154 [i. e. 156] p. 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The artist's assistant; or School of science. Being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists; the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood; of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather; japanning, dying, casting, &c. With a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories ...

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Date:
1807
Physical Description:
xvi, 296 p. front., 10 plates (part. fold.) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The artist's assistant, or new & improved drawing book; to which are added, the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts, etching, engraving, mezzotinto scraping, painting in water-colours, and on silks and satins; with instructions for mixing the different shades. The whole methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners.

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Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
28 p. fold. front. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, metzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners ...

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Date:
1806
Physical Description:
viii, 36 p. front. (port.) fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The new handmaid to arts, sciences, agriculture, &c. Containing 1. Prognostications for the weather ... 6. The most rare secret how to catch fish; also the method to make bird-lime. Together with the whole art of limning and painting, in oil and water colours. Also the art of gilding ... The method of colouring maps ... The curious art and mystery of japaaning [!] ... with many other things worthy of note ...

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Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 p.., [3]-142 p. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The problem of form in painting and sculpture, by Adolf Hildebrand; translated and revised with the author's co-operation by Max Meyer ... and Robert Morris Ogden ... With thirty illustrations and a portrait of the author.

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Creator:
Hildebrand, Adolf von, 1847–1921
Date:
1907
Physical Description:
141 p. incl. front. (port.) illus. 20 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

18. Complete book of artists' techniques.

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Creator:
Herberts, Kurt
Date:
[1958]
Collection:
Reference Library

19. Thinking through craft / Glenn Adamson.

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Creator:
Adamson, Glenn
Date:
2007
Physical Description:
x, 209 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

20. Artists' techniques and materials / Antonella Fuga ; translated by Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia.

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Creator:
Fuga, Antonella
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
383 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

21. Infernal methods : a study of William Blake's art techniques / Raymond Lister.

Infernal methods : a study of William Blake's art techniques / Raymond Lister.
Creator:
Lister, Raymond
Date:
1975
Collection:
Reference Library

22. The artist's craft : a history of tools, techniques, and materials / James Ayres.

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Creator:
Ayres, James
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

23. Reclams Handbuch der künstlerischen Techniken.

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Date:
c1984-
Physical Description:
v. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

24. Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects. Nor for the first time translated into English by Louisa S. Macklehose. Edited, with introd. & notes, by G. Baldwin Brown.

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Creator:
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511–1574
Date:
[1960]
Physical Description:
xxiv, 328 p. illus., ports, map. 21 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

25. From clay to bronze : Katharine W. Lane, Boston / produced for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Date:
2013
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (32 min.) : b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Collection:
Reference Library