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)

ADVERTISEMENT.

Amid so many works upon the Art of Drawing
and Painting as have been called forth by the
almost universal desire to draw; it is not sur-
prising that a considerable number should be
utterly valueless. But it is to be regretted that
such as do possess merit, in every instance
require a certain degree of proficiency or
previous tuition in the reader to serve the
purpose intended; not excepting those which
are designated Elementary.

They describe the mode of holding the pencil;
represent the particular touch adapted to deli-
neate certain trees, and provide drawings varying
in complexity and difficulty, as examples for
the student; but thev give no principles upon