The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style
A self-teaching drawing manual by watercolorist Thomas Smith, printed in London by William Clowes for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper in 1827, addressed to amateurs working without a master through twenty-eight graded lessons. The wood-engraved vignettes break landscape into parts — foliage masses, rocks, tree trunks, ruled water and sky lines — giving designers small isolated motifs and visible hatching systems.
