The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work : elegantly engraved on eighty quarto 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, 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 ; wherein 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 fourth edition : with considerable improvements.
Published / Created:
London : ... Printed and sold by Robert Sayer, map, chart, and print-seller, No. 53, Fleet-Street, 1786.
Physical Description:
8 p., [80] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:581357
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : British Art Center copy is bound with: The draughtsmen's assistant / Carington Bowles. London : Robert Sayer, 1786.