Bowles's complete drawing-book, containing an extensive collection of examples on a great variety of subjects, for the improvement of youth, in the pleasant and useful art of drawing, elegantly engraved on one hundred copper-plates, in the following method: I. Lessons adapted to lead the pupil gradually from the first practice on parts of the human body, to the drawing of the whole academy figures, in fifty plates, by Sebastian Le Clerc. II. Examples of landscapes sketched in outlines for the first attempts of the pupil, and finished with shadings for his after practice. In several original plates, by Chatelaine, Viveres, Vansomer, &c. III. Designs in sea pieces; many examples in horses, cattle, fowls and flowers, after the best masters, on each subject. To which are annexed. Introductory rules for the use of learners; with an account of the instruments and materials used in drawing

People / Organizations

• Carington Bowles (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for and sold by the proprietor Carington Bowles, at his map and print warehouse, no. 69, in St. Paul's Church Yard, [1800?] The eighth edition, corrected and greatly improved with additions.; ..

Added name

Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, bookseller.

Publication year

1800

ESTC No.

T132565

Grub Street ID

181471

Description

[2], 4 p., 100 leaves of plates : ill. ; 4°.

Note

The plates are printed for Bowles and Carver

Beside imprint on title page: (Price 7s. 6d.)

Uncontrolled note

Bowles and Carver post 1793