The Art of Drawing and Colouring from Nature, Flowers, Fruit, and Shells; to which is added, correct directions for preparing the most brilliant colours for Painting on Velvet, with the mode of using them; also, the New Method of Oriental Tinting.

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4to., (10 4/8 x 8 2/8 inches). 24 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates and duplicates uncoloured, interleaved with instructional text (some minor spotting and a few pale stains). Modern half calf over contemporary grey paper boards. First edition and an ATTRACTIVE UNUSED COPY, with beautiful botanical plates and sections on the exotic arts of: painting on velvet "the downy surface of the velvet, and the brilliancy of the liquid colours used to produce fruit and flower, give it a decided superiority over any other kind of flower painting, for ornamenting bell ropes, ottomans, &c. (page 70); and Oriental Tinting "fruit and flowers painted on paper, in this style of colouring, are exceedingly soft and beautiful, and from the ease with which persons, unacquainted with drawing, can produce pictures by means of stencil patterns." (page 80). Abbey Life 189. N° de ref. del artículo 001377

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