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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 14

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am muft fall in : and * fo of every other joint in the body.Sketch your outline at firft very faint, marking the general ap-pearance and proportion of the moft confpicuous and remark-able particulars with flight touches, and afterwards introducethe minute parts by tracing it over again, corredling…

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