All Draughtsmen's Assistant, Or, Drawing Made Easy: Wherein The Principles Of That Art Are Rendered Familiar In Ten Instructive Lessons ... Explain'd by a great Variety of Examples from the most approved Designs, on Copper-plates, neatly engraved: With a suitable Introduction on the Utility of this Noble Art ; And Observations on Design, as well in regard to Theory as Practise
A drawing-instruction book edited by Carington Bowles and published in 1777, presenting ten lessons for amateur draughtsmen through copper-plate examples of approved designs. The pictures are rotated sideways on the scan, so the figures appear tilted; they are engraved pastoral and woodland scenes of figures among trees, rocks and a distant building, showing how a designer might build up foliage with dense hatching, loose contour strokes and open sky.
