Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The young artist.
Published / Created:
[England] : J.S., [1865?]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC670 .Y68 1865
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Suite of 8 lithographed plates in (4) pairs, with identical lithographed illustrations of flowers on facing pages. The illustration at left in the opening has been hand-colored (by the publisher); the matching image at right is uncolored, for the student to imitate the coloring given at left.

Cover title.

At head of title: "No. [blank]." The first pair of plates are numbered "no. 8"; presumably the present suite was the eighth in the series.

Price twopence: Cover.

Publication date based on a manuscript inscription in the copy in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original red illustrated paper wrappers. All of the student's uncolored plates have been hand-colored. Autograph: Constance M. Christian, 1865.
Subject Terms:
Botanical illustration. | Drawing -- Study and teaching. | Watercolor painting -- Study and teaching. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | J.S. -- Publisher. | Christian, Constance M. -- Autograph, 1865.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1865. | Drawings books.