Thoughts on outline, sculpture, and the system that guided the ancient artists in composing their figures and groupes
Subtitle: accompanied with free remarks on the practice of the moderns, and liberal hints cordially intended for their advantage : to which are annexed twenty-four designs of classical subjects invented on the principles recommended in the essay
By: by George Cumberland
Publisher: Printed by W. Wilson, St. Peter's Hill, Doctors'-Commons; and sold by Messrs. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; and T. Egerton, Whitehall
Published: 1796
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Art collections; Catalogs; Drawing; Early works to 1800; Human figure in art; Ancient Gems; Private collections; Art criticism; Sculpture; Ancient Sculpture
Other titles: Cumberland's outlines.
Notes: "To the reader" (p. [i]-iii) is signed and dated: "G. Cumberland. Bishopsgate, Windsor Great Park, June, 1796."

Includes 8 plates engraved by William Blake from designs by Cumberland, 15 designed and engraved by Cumberland, and 1 unsigned engraving which serves as a section title reading: Inventions by G. Cumberland.

Selling arrangements discussed by Bentley, p. 543.

With a preliminary leaf containing a quotation from Sir William Jones's Asiatic Researches [sic].

Blake's plates are praised on p. 47-48.

"A numerical catalogue of ... subjects from engraved stones ... selected ... from Mr. Tassies' cabinet ..." p. 49-52.

"Lately published by the same author...": p. [53].

Keynes, G. Blake, 112;

Bentley, G.E. Blake books, 447;

Bentley, G.E. Cumberland, p. 15-20.