A Familiar Treatise On Drawing, For Youth: Being An Elementary Introduction To The Fine Arts, Designed For The Instruction Of Young Persons Whose Genius Leads Them To Study This Elegant And Useful Branch Of Education
A drawing instruction manual written by Charles Taylor and published in 1827, aimed at young students who wish to learn the fine arts. The pictures are stipple-engraved and pen-and-ink studies of single body parts and a child's head, showing how to render soft shading with dots and hatching. A designer might borrow the dotted tonal method and the practice of isolating eyes, hands and faces on a plain page as a study sheet.
