Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Clarke, Hewson, 1787-1832?
Title:
The cabinet of arts, or General instructor in arts, science, trade, practical machinery, the means of preserving human life, and political economy, embracing a variety of important subjects. By Hewson Clarke ... and John Dougall ... Embellished with appropriate engravings.
Published / Created:
London, J. M'Gowan [1825]
Physical Description:
3 p.., 859 p. front., plates (1 fold.) 22 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
H81 C5 1825
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : Some plates signed I. Brown; one wood engraving by Berryman, after Craig.

BAC : One plate and some leaves of text watermarked 1824.

Added t.-p., engr.

First published 1817; this edition published 1825, according to the English Catalogue of Books.

The chapters on architecture, painting and engraving are for the most part the same as books 2-4 of The cabinet of the arts, being a new and universal drawing book, edited by T. Hodson and J. Dougall, in 1805.
Subject Terms:
Occupations. | Industrial arts. | Economics.
Contributors:
Dougall, John, 1760–1822.