Zeichenbuch für Künstler und Liebhaber der freyen Handzeichnung, insbesondere als ein nöthiger Theil der Erziehung höherer Bestimmung behandelt
A late eighteenth-century German drawing manual compiled by Johann Quirin Jahn and Johann Heinrich Balzer in 1781, meant for artists and amateurs learning freehand drawing as part of a higher education. The plates are numbered engravings of anatomical studies, with limbs, feet and hands drawn in fine outline and light hatching, shown against measured grid lines on several sheets. A designer could take from them a clear model of how to build figures and extremities through simple contour and proportion.
