The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art
Subtitle: being a compleat drawing book, containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases, as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, &c. curiously engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd an introduction to drawing ...
By: translated from the French of Gerard De Lairesse and improved with abstracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy
Contributors: Boucher, François, 1703-1770; Bowles, John, 1701-1779; Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793; Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668; Franck, Sebastian, 1499-1542; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677; Natoire, Charles Joseph, 1700-1777; Roberts, Henry, ca. 1710-ca. 1790; Somer, Paul van, 1649-1694; Vanloo, Carle, 1705-1765; Vivarès, François, 1709-1780; Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721
Edition: The sixth edition.
Publisher: Printed for John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church Yard
Published: 1764
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Technique; Study and teaching; Drawing
Other titles: Easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art
Work titles: Principes du dessein
Notes: First published 1733. See ESTC.

Five plates by Henry Roberts after Antoine Watteau. Eight plates signed AM. One by Paul van Somer. Four by Wenceslas Hollar after Sebastian Franck, dated 1677. Three by François Vivares after Charles Natoire, Carle Vanloo and François Boucher.

ESTC N25699

Binding: marbled paper, back and corners in calfskin.

Ownership inscription of John James, Cambridge, January 1795.