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Nouveau livre de principes de dessein : recüelli des etudes des meilleurs maitres tant anciens que modernes

1748 · A Paris : Chez L. Surugue, graveur du roy ... ; Et a Lyon : Chez Pariset ... · 34 pictures

A drawing manual published in Paris and Lyon in 1748 by L. Surugue, gathering studies from older and modern masters for students learning to draw. Its plates show isolated facial features, heads in profile, and a child's head, drawn as tonal etchings with fine parallel hatching. A designer could take from them the clear hatching technique and the way single facial parts are isolated and built up from light to dark.

Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library