Principles of design
A drawing manual by Sébastien Le Clerc, first published in France and reissued in London by R.H. Laurie in 1824, for students learning figure drawing. Its faint etched plates show partial and full human figures in pale outline and light shading, with little ornament or text. A designer could take from them simple gestural poses and the economy of line that builds a body from a few contours.
