The principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art : 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 ...
A drawing manual issued by John and Carington Bowles in London in 1764, compiling copperplate exercises after Dürer, Bloemaert, Le Clerc, Hollar and others for young students learning to draw. Plates group several small etched scenes per sheet — landscapes with ruins and trees, seated and reclining figures, cattle — alongside progressive studies of heads, hands and limbs, useful as line-drawing vignettes and figure reference; several leaves in this copy are blank versos showing only faint offset.
