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Author/Creator:Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740.
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Title:For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.
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Published/Created:London : Printed for B. Dickinson, at the corner of Bell-Savage-Inn, on Ludgate Hill, 1751.
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Physical Description:[3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
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References:English short title catalogue, T137504
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Subjects:Drawing--Technique.
Drawing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Watercolor painting--Technique.
Watercolor painting--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1751.
Engraving--Specimens--1751.
Dickinson, B.--Publisher.
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Genre/Form:Drawing books.
Handbooks and manuals.
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Also listed under:Lairesse, GeĢrard de, 1640-1711.
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668.
The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, May 17, 2001-September 2, 2001)
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3421474