The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction
A drawing manual by the American painter and engraver John Gadsby Chapman, published in New York in 1847 for schoolroom, amateur, and self-taught students. Plates pair finished engraved studies of hands, faces, and figures with the bare construction lines beneath them, giving designers both crisp hatched anatomy and skeletal guide-line diagrams to lift.
