Bowles's Principles of Drawing: Forming A Complete Drawing Book ; Illustrated With A Curious Collection of Examples, Beginning With An easy and simple Method, calculated to Convey Instruction to Young Minds ; By which they may acquire The Art without the Assistance of a Master. Every Branch of Drawing is contained in this Book ... Elegantly engraved on Sixty Folio Pages of Copper Plates, All From The Original Drawings of the most approves Masters. To which ist prefixed, An Introduction To Drawing: Containing Rules and Directions for the Choice of Instruments and Materials, and how to apply and manage them. With easy and proper Lessons for the Young Student
Bowles's Principles of Drawing is an 1793 English drawing manual compiled by Carington Bowles, drawing on Gérard de Lairesse and Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, and aimed at young students learning without a master. Its plates are engraved copies of figure studies, showing costumed men and women in standing and walking poses, some rotated sideways on the page, which a designer could use as reference for period dress, gesture and figure proportion.
