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Camera, or, art of drawing in water colours : with instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of water-colored drawing : familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive states : and directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, &c
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Camera, or, art of drawing in water colours : with instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of water-colored drawing : familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive states : and directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, &c / by J. Hassell.
Published
London : Printed by James Drury, 70, Fleet Street, for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall ..., 1823.
Physical Description
iv, [5]-32 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center has three copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy, bound in green publisher's cloth. Plate 3 disbound, inserted at end. Copy 2 is bound in original boards, as issued. Copy 3 is bound in original boards, as issued. Plate 1 disbound, inserted at end.
Notes
'The Camera' is a revised edition of the 'Speculum' of 1806 with three similar folding plates. Cf. Bicknell.
Illustrations by and after John Hassell.
Includes frontispiece.
Variant and related titles
Camera.
Art of drawing in water colours.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Gilpin to Ruskin / exhibition selected and catalogued by Peter Bicknell .... London, 1987. 34.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 142
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Genre/Form
Aquatints - 1823.
Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1823.
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