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• Title:The progressive drawing book : containing a series of easy and comprehensive lessons for drawing landscape, architecture, the human figure, shipping, animals, &c. : without the aid of a master : also a complete treatise on perspective : with nearly three hundred engravings.
  
• Published/Created:London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, MLCCCLIII [1853]
  
• Physical Description:[4], 56, [1] p., 88 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: NC660 .P76 1853+ Oversize
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's blind- and gold- stamped cloth.
  
• Notes:Anonymous.
  Some of the illustrations signed by William Henry Prior.
  Printed by Mary S. Rickerby, Sherbourn Lane, City.
  The preliminary unnumbered plate is a frontipiece depicting a ship.
  
• Format:Book
• References:NSTC, O11279511
  
• Subjects:Drawing books--Specimens.
  Drawing--Study and teaching.
  Perspective--Study and teaching.
  Landscape drawing--Study and teaching.
  Architectural drawing--Study and teaching.
  Figure drawing--Study and teaching.
  Animals in art.
  Ships in art.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1853.
  Rickerby, Mary S.--Printer.
  Bohn, Henry G.--Publisher.
  
• Genre/Form:Wood engravings--1853.
  
• Also listed under:Prior, William Henry, 1812-1882, engraver.