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PREFACE
to the
SECOND EDITION.
SO many schemes have been formed, so many publications have appeared,
all destined for the instruction of youth in the principles and practice of Drawing
and Painting, that any addition to the stock might appear to be now superfluous.
On a general view of the subject this remark may seem to be well founded : but
those persons who have attentively considered the works above-mentioned; those
especially who have been concerned in the education of juvenile artists; must be
sensible that numerous as already are the elementary works intended for their
assistance in study and practice, the list may yet be very usefully enlarged. Some
treatise seemed to be still wanting which, within a moderate compass of expence,
and without entering very deeply into the more abstruse parts of art, might com-
prehend sufficient information on the various topics to be studied by the young
draughtsman and painter. To supply in some measure this defect has been the
purpose of the present work ; in preparing which no labour has been refused in
collecting, from the best authorities, what was judged to be the most requisite for
the student.
The present Edition contains besides various practical notices, prepared by
eminent artists, expressly for the work; in the course of which the Reader is
referred to other publications, by which he may receive further information on
the several subjects, which could be discussed in only a summary manner in the
present Publication. Among the new or highly improved articles introduced into
this Edition it may be sufficient to mention as a sample only that on Lithography,
a most ingenious and useful modern discovery, which promises to form an im-
portant epoch in the history of art. Being properly neither Drawing nor Painting
nor Engraving, although closely related to them all, Lithography has naturally
found its place in the Appendix.
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to the
SECOND EDITION.
SO many schemes have been formed, so many publications have appeared,
all destined for the instruction of youth in the principles and practice of Drawing
and Painting, that any addition to the stock might appear to be now superfluous.
On a general view of the subject this remark may seem to be well founded : but
those persons who have attentively considered the works above-mentioned; those
especially who have been concerned in the education of juvenile artists; must be
sensible that numerous as already are the elementary works intended for their
assistance in study and practice, the list may yet be very usefully enlarged. Some
treatise seemed to be still wanting which, within a moderate compass of expence,
and without entering very deeply into the more abstruse parts of art, might com-
prehend sufficient information on the various topics to be studied by the young
draughtsman and painter. To supply in some measure this defect has been the
purpose of the present work ; in preparing which no labour has been refused in
collecting, from the best authorities, what was judged to be the most requisite for
the student.
The present Edition contains besides various practical notices, prepared by
eminent artists, expressly for the work; in the course of which the Reader is
referred to other publications, by which he may receive further information on
the several subjects, which could be discussed in only a summary manner in the
present Publication. Among the new or highly improved articles introduced into
this Edition it may be sufficient to mention as a sample only that on Lithography,
a most ingenious and useful modern discovery, which promises to form an im-
portant epoch in the history of art. Being properly neither Drawing nor Painting
nor Engraving, although closely related to them all, Lithography has naturally
found its place in the Appendix.
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