Yale Center for British Art
Creator:
Barnard, George, 1807-1890
Title:
The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.
Published / Created:
London : Published by Ackermann and Co., Jany. 2nd, 1837.
Physical Description:
[14] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm x 38 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC735 .B37 1837+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3143513
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title leaf signed: Printed by C. Hullmandel.

Lithographed t.p. included in foliation.

Tinted lithographs throughout.

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 93

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped green cloth binding. Front cover gilt stamped: Continental drawing book. 13 plates by Barnard. Binder's ticket: T. Sotheran. Inscribed: Mary Hunter, 4th July 1846. A present from her dear papa. A pencilled ms. annotation on rear pasted down end-paper gives issue price as 21/-
Subject Terms:
Drawing books -- Specimens. | Drawing -- Study and teaching. | Drawing -- Technique. | Switzerland -- Pictorial works. | Alps -- Pictorial works. | Lakes -- Italy -- Pictorial works. | Italy -- Pictorial works. | Ackermann and Co. -- Publisher. | Sotheran, T. -- Binder.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1837.
Contributors:
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789–1850, printer of plates.