The rudiments of drawing : collected from the designs of the most approved masters : on 26 copper plates
A London drawing manual of 1799 published by Laurie and Whittle of Fleet Street, compiled from the designs of approved masters as a set of 26 copper-plate studies for students learning to draw. The plates show rows of heads and fragments in pen-and-ink or fine engraved line, many turned at odd angles, giving a designer clear examples of foreshortened faces, hair masses and expressive profiles for figure studies.
