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Date 1755

Work Type drawing book

1. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. : With out-lines to each plate : made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters : to which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages, 100 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts