Accession number
PML 146506
Creator
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770-1863.
Published
London : Printed for and sold by Edward Orme, 1807.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Printed by J. Hayes, Dartmouth Street, Westminster."
Engravings and aquatints by J.R. Hamble after John Heaviside Clark.
Illustrated with 10 numbered line and aquatint plates, with two pairs of plates showing uncolored and colored states of the same print repeating numbers "V" and "VII", as issued, with no plate no. IV or VI included in the sequence.
Samples of colour are arranged along the bottom of the plates and the accompanying text provides the student with instructions on how to paint the same landscape under four different sorts of "effect"--sunset, moonlight, snow, and fire--by numbering examples of the tints and mixtures to be used.
Publisher's advertisements (2 p.) at end of text.
Engravings and aquatints by J.R. Hamble after John Heaviside Clark.
Illustrated with 10 numbered line and aquatint plates, with two pairs of plates showing uncolored and colored states of the same print repeating numbers "V" and "VII", as issued, with no plate no. IV or VI included in the sequence.
Samples of colour are arranged along the bottom of the plates and the accompanying text provides the student with instructions on how to paint the same landscape under four different sorts of "effect"--sunset, moonlight, snow, and fire--by numbering examples of the tints and mixtures to be used.
Publisher's advertisements (2 p.) at end of text.
Description
25, [2] p., 10 leaves of plates : ill. (chiefly hand col.) ; 40 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary gray boards with printed label on front reading: An essay on the art of colouring and of painting landscapes in water colours ...
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