Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770-1863, A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours, with ten illustrative engravings , 1825
- Title(s):
- A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours, with ten illustrative engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.
- Additional Title(s):
- Essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed for the proprietors, by Priestley and Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury, 1825.
- Physical Description:
- [4], 28 p., X leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsND1354.5 .C53 1825+ Copy 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsND1354.5 .C53 1825+ Copy 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3283622
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Cover title, on publisher's printed label: An essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours.
"Samples of colour are arranged along the bottom of the plates and the accompanying text provides the student with instruction on how to paint the same landscape under four diffrent sorts of 'effect': sunset, moonlight, snow and firy, by numbering examples of the tints and mixtures to be used."--Gilpin to Ruskin.
Original edition published: London : Edward Orme, 1807; cf. Abbey, J.R. Life, 108. Second edition: 1812.
Aquatints by J.R. Hamble; after John Heaviside Clarke.
Printed by J. Hayes, Dartmouth Street, Westminster.
"Price £1. 4s."--Publisher's cover title label.
Gilpin to Ruskin : drawing masters and their manuals, 1800-1860, p. 88
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 bound in contemporary quarter red roan and marbled boards, . Copy 2 bound both in marbled boards, rebacked, with publisher's original title label on front cover. - Subject Terms:
- Drawing books -- Specimens.Knight, C. -- Publisher.Landscape painting -- Technique.Landscape painting, English -- 19th century.Priestly and Weale -- Publisher.Watercolor painting -- 19th century.Watercolor painting -- Technique.Watercolor painting, English.
- Form/Genre:
- Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1825
Aquatints -- 1825
Drawing books -- England -- London -- 1825.
Watercolors (Paintings). - Export:
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