The Artist's repository; or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts
The Artist's repository; or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts is a London art encyclopedia of 1813 compiled by Charles Taylor (1756-1823) for practising artists and students. Its plates are pen-and-ink studies of figures, ruined buildings, trees and a perspective construction, drawn in fine linework with light hatching and sparse shading. A designer could draw on the economical contour line, the loose sketchbook layout of several small studies per page, and the traced architectural and foliage detail.
