Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740
Title:: For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.
Published / Created:: London : Printed for B. Dickinson, at the corner of Bell-Savage-Inn, on Ludgate Hill, 1751.
Physical Description:: [3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC735 L45 1751+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: English short title catalogue, T137504
Exhibition History:: The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:: Drawing -- Technique. | Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Watercolor painting -- Technique. | Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Dickinson, B. -- Publisher. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1751.
Form/Genre:: Drawing books. | Handbooks and manuals.
Contributors:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711. | Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611–1668.