Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The progressive drawing book : containing a series of easy and comprehensive lessons for drawing landscape, architecture, the human figure, shipping, animals, &c. : without the aid of a master : also a complete treatise on perspective : with nearly three hundred engravings.
Published / Created:
London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, MLCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:
[4], 56, [1] p., 88 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC660 .P76 1853+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Anonymous.

Some of the illustrations signed by William Henry Prior.

Printed by Mary S. Rickerby, Sherbourn Lane, City.

The preliminary unnumbered plate is a frontipiece depicting a ship.

NSTC, O11279511

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's blind- and gold- stamped cloth.
Subject Terms:
Drawing books -- Specimens. | Drawing -- Study and teaching. | Perspective -- Study and teaching. | Landscape drawing -- Study and teaching. | Architectural drawing -- Study and teaching. | Figure drawing -- Study and teaching. | Animals in art. | Ships in art. | Bohn, Henry G. -- Publisher. | Rickerby, Mary S. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1853.
Contributors:
Prior, William Henry, 1812–1882, engraver.