Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bluck, John (Printmaker)
Title:
[Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]
Edition:
[New edition]
Published / Created:
[London] : [Pub. 21, May, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand], [1800]
Physical Description:
[4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC660 .B58 1800+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title and edition statement taken from the Advertisement: p. [1]

Aquatint engravings by and after J. Bluck.

Imprint plates.

Each of four designs is offerend in four versions: [1] simple line drawing; [2-3] with progressively added tone and detail; [4] hand-colored.

Text printed in two columns, in parallel English and French.

Publisher's advertisement on p. [1] of preliminary paging.

Ford, J. Ackermann, p. 221

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter calf and gray boards. Publisher's original printed title label on front cover mutilated, almost entirely lacking. Inscribed: W. Marshall.
Subject Terms:
Landscape drawing -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain. | Gloucester (England) -- Pictorial works. | Worcestershire (England) -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Drawing -- Technique. | Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Ackermann, R. -- Publisher | Marshall, W. -- Autograph
Form/Genre:
Handbooks and manuals. | Drawing books. | Aquatints -- 1800. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1800. | Publisher's advertisements -- England -- London -- 1800.
Contributors:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834, publisher.