Howard, Frank: The sketcher's manual: or, the whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master (London, 1841)

Howard, Frank

The sketcher's manual: or, the whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master

London, 1841

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Citation link: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/howard1841
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-12246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1224
Metadata: METS
IIIF Manifest: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/iiif/howard1841/manifest.json

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Frontispiz, Titelblatt
Dedication
V-XI Preface/Advertisement
XIII-XIV Contents
XV-XVI List of plates
1-8 I. Elements of pictures
9-22 II. Rules for producing pictorial effect
23-42 III. Principles to be observed in making pictures
43-54 IV. Strong and weak points of a picture
55-70 V. The effects of perspective
71-75 VI. Instructions on the selection of subjects for sketching from nature
76-79 VII. Progressive styles of execution / Concluding remarks

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