The artist's vade mecum , 1766
- Title(s):
- The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes .../ collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.
- Edition:
- The second edition, with additions.
- Published/Created:
- London : ... Sold by R. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, in Fleet-Street, 1766.
- Physical Description:
- 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/581351
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BAC : British Art Center copy is extra-illustrated.
Plates by Anthony Walker, Paul Sandby, Henry Roberts, Simon François Ravenet, H. Stevens, and C.H. Hemerich; after Paul Sandby, Peter Tillemans, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, and Fenn.
T.p. printed in red and black.
Headpiece. - Subject Terms:
- Barrett, -- Autograph, 1811.Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.Drawing -- Technique.Engraving -- Specimens -- 1766.Etching -- Specimens -- 1766.Gapper, Richard Colston -- Autograph.Sayer, R. -- Publisher.
- Form/Genre:
- Drawing books.
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance) - Export:
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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