A practical treatise on painting in three parts consisting of hints on composition, chiaroscuro, and colouring
A practical treatise on painting in three parts, written by the English painter and engraver John Burnet and printed in London in 1830 by the Chiswick Press for art students and working painters. Its plates are pencil-like line studies of genre scenes, such as crowded interiors, peasants at work, and animals in landscape, showing how figures are grouped and lit. A designer can take from them clear models for arranging multiple figures into a single compositional mass with a few strong light and dark areas.
