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 ... (1764)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, 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 · London : Printed for John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church Yard · leaf 11
deviation. D, ob-lioue lines, converging or approximating one way, and diverg-ing or continually increafing their diftance the other wd.y.E, parallel lines which are every where equidiftant from each,other., at F, two femicircles are drawn from points affuraedin the lower line, and the upper line… … THIS fecond leffon confifls partly of geometrical figures,fome of them with plain lines, others with their furfacesformed by light and Ihade. Number i. is a circle. 2. The circle appearing with a flatfide, being iilled with an equal fhade. 3. A convex appear-ance given to the circle by light and…
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