Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
Title:
Practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the Rev. Wm. Gilpin ... ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours, by John Heaviside Clark ...
Alternate Title(s):
Clark on Gilpin, and water colour painting
Published / Created:
London : Published by Edward Orme, printseller to His Majesty, engraver and publisher, Bond Street, corner of Brook Street, 1811.
Physical Description:
[6], vi, [31] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND2240 .G55 1811+ Copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND2240 .G55 1811+ Copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
ND2240 .G55 1811+ Copy 3 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
With an added engraved title page: Clark on Gilpin, and water colour painting, 1811.

Each plate accompanied by a page of letterpress instructions.

Bermingham, A. Learning to draw, p. 119

Bicknell, P. Gilpin to Ruskin, 9

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 109

BAC: British Art Center has 3 copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Stamp in black ink on verso of t.p.: D. Granville. Copy 2 bound in marbled boards. Lacks added engraved title page. Copy 3 bound in illustrated boards.
Subject Terms:
Landscape painting -- Technique. | Drawing -- Technique. | Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Watercolor painting -- Technique. | Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Orme, Edward -- Publisher. | Hayes, J. -- Printer. | Granville, D. -- Stamp.
Form/Genre:
Drawing books. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1811.
Contributors:
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863, engraver.