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For Schools, Academies, and Self-Instruction
THE
AMERICAN DRAWING-BOOK.
BY JOHN G. CHAPMAN, N. A.
This Work will be published in Parts; in the course of which—
PRIMARY INSTRUCTIONS AND RUDIMENTS OF DRAWING
DRAWING FROM NATURE—MATERIALS AND METHODS.
PERSPECTIVE—COMPOSITION—LANDSCAPE—FIGURES, ETC:
DRAWING, AS APPLICABLE TO THE MECHANIC ARTS:
PAINTING IN OIL AND WATER COLORS:
THE PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT AND SHADE:
EXTERNAL ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN FORM, AND COMPARATIVE
ANATOMY:
THE VARIOUS METHODS OF ETCHING, ENGRAVING, MODELLING, Etc.
Will be severally treated, separately; so that, as far as practicable, each
Part will be complete in itself, and form, in the whole, “a Manual of
Information sufficient for all the purposes of the Amateur, and Basis
of Study for the Professional Artist, as well as a valuable Assistant
to Teachers in Public and Private Schools;” to whom it is especially
recommended, as a work destined to produce a revolution in the system
of popular education. by making the Arts of Design accessible
and familiar to all, from the concise and intelligible manner in which
the subject is treated throughout.
The want of such a work, has been the great cause of neglect in this
important branch of education; and this want is at once and fully supplied
by the—
AMERICAN DRAWING-BOOK:
upon which Mr. Chapman has been for years engaged; and it is now
produced, without regard to expense, in all its details, and published at
a price to place it within the means of every one.
The Work will be published in large quarto form, put up in substantial
covers, and issued as rapidly as the careful execution of the numerous
engravings, and the mechanical perfection of the whole, will allow
Any one Part may be had separately
Price 50 Cents each Part.
The DRAWING COPY-BOOKS, intended as auxiliary
to the Work, in assisting Teachers to carry out the system of instruction,
especially in the Primary and Elementary parts, form a new and valuable
addition to the means of instruction. They will be sold at a cost
little beyond that of ordinary blank books.
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