The Art Of Figure Drawing: Containing Practical Instructions For A Course Of Study In This Branch Of Art ; With Seventeen Illustrations, Drawn On Wood By The Author, And Engraved By Walter G. Mason
The Art of Figure Drawing is an 1853 instruction manual by Charles Harvey Weigall, with its wood engravings cut by Walter George Mason, aimed at students learning to draw the human form. Its plates show a seated girl gathering straw, a standing girl leaning on a post beside a basket, and a numbered male figure in front and back views with horizontal proportion guidelines. A designer could take from them the clean, even line of mid-nineteenth-century wood engraving and the practice of marking body proportions with simple measuring bands.
