Mirador viewer

Image Use Rights: No Copyright: You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. (CC0 1.0)

Copyright Statement: Public Domain
Creator: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711
Title: the principles of drawing, or, an easy and familiar method whereby youth are directed in the practice of that useful art : being a compleat drawing book containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases : as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips [sic], cattle, building, &c. curiously engraved on copper plates, after the designs of albert durer, abrah. bloemart, carlo morac, le clerc, hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd, an introduction to drawing; containing an account of the instruments and materials used in drawing, and the method of managing them; also instruction to form the judgment of a young beginner, and direct his hand in practice, with early and proper lessons for him at the first entrance : also, early and proper lessons for a young beginner, with instructions to form his judgment and direct his practice / translated from the french of monsieur gerard de lairesse and improved with abstracts from c.a. du fresnoy.
Publisher: London : Printed and sold by Thomas Bowles, in St. Paul's Church-Yard and John Bowles and Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description: [2], 8, [2] p., [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Institution: Yale Center for British Art
Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts

About this resource: catalog entry at the Yale Center for British Art
See also: https://libapp.library.yale.edu/OAI_BAC/src/OAIOrbisTool.jsp?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:orbis.library.yale.edu:3405601&metadataPrefix=marc21(text/xml); http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3405601(text/html)
IIIF manifest: https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/orb/3405601

1 of 2 • Image Courtesy YCBA