The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes .../ collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.
Edition:
The second edition, with additions.
Published / Created:
London : ... Sold by R. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, in Fleet-Street, 1766.
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : British Art Center copy is extra-illustrated.
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Walker, Anthony, 1726–1765, engraver. | Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809, ill. | Roberts, Henry, approximately 1710–approximately 1790, engraver. | Ravenet, Simon François, 1706–1774, engraver. | Stevens, H., engraver. | Hemmerich, Cornelius Heinrich, engraver. | Tillemans, Peter, 1684–1734, ill. | Rösel von Rosenhof, August Johann, 1705–1759, ill. | Fenn, C., ill.