The elements of art; a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist
A drawing manual of 1848 by the American painter John Gadsby Chapman, published in London by D. Bogue for amateurs and students learning to draw. Its pictures are plain line studies of a female face in profile, a hand, and heads with construction guidelines, showing how proportions and features are built up step by step, a method a designer can use for sketching figures and placing features.
