The artist's vade-mecum [electronic resource] : 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, &c. &c. &c. 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 third edition, with considerable additions.

Publication:

London : printed and published according to Act of Parliament: and sold by R. Sayer, and J. Bennett, Map and Print Sellers, at No. 53, Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVI. [1776]

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Format/Description:

Book
8p.,plates ; 4⁰.

Subjects:

Drawing -- Technique -- Early works to 1800.

Place of Publication:

England London.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Notes:

Some of the plates are dated 1777.
Price from imprint: Price 7s. 6d. sewed, bound 10s. 6d.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T10582.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

Online version
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/95863