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Imitative art; or, The means of representing the pictorial appearances of objects, as governed by aerial and linear perspective: being a manual of details, for the amateur sketcher and the man of business, with a chapter on finish

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    Means of representing the pictorial appearances of objects, as governed by aerial and linear perspective

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A very uncommon perspective manual. “The following pages will be found to afford the means of describing to Mechanics any given form, which they may be required to make; and thus to render Drawing an assistant to Words, as a means of communicating ideas.” (Charles Wood, cat. 167, # 185)

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    London: Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, [1840]

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    • "London: Printed by J. Green and Co., Barlett's Buildings, Holborn"--Title page verso.
    • Date from RLIN.
    • Publisher's advertisements after text.
    • Author was an artist and served as assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence.
    • "Together with ... [author's previous books] this title will be found to contain all that is necessary to enable Amateurs to produce pretty pictures, which shall have suffcient resemblance to Nature to please the million, and perhaps the cognoscenti; and will, at all times, afford a ready means of producing a representation of any favored scene, under the circumstances which ensure agreeable impressions, and entitle the production to rank as a work of Art"--Page iv.

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