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Creator:
John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Title(s):
[Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]
Edition:
[New edition]
Published/Created:
[London] : [Pub. 21, May, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand], [1800]
Physical Description:
[4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC660 .B58 1800+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title and edition statement taken from the Advertisement: p. [1]
Aquatint engravings by and after J. Bluck.
Imprint plates.
Each of four designs is offerend in four versions: [1] simple line drawing; [2-3] with progressively added tone and detail; [4] hand-colored.
Text printed in two columns, in parallel English and French.
Publisher's advertisement on p. [1] of preliminary paging.
Ford, J. Ackermann, p. 221
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter calf and gray boards. Publisher's original printed title label on front cover mutilated, almost entirely lacking. Inscribed: W. Marshall.
Subject Terms:
Ackermann, R. -- Publisher
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Drawing -- Technique.
Gloucester (England) -- Pictorial works.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Landscape drawing -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
Marshall, W. -- Autograph
Worcestershire (England) -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Handbooks and manuals.
Drawing books.
Aquatints -- 1800.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1800.
Publisher's advertisements -- England -- London -- 1800.
Contributors:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834, publisher.
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