The Artist's Repository, Or, Encyclopedia of the Fine Arts: The Human Figure
A plate-based drawing manual titled The Artist's Repository, Or, Encyclopedia of the Fine Arts: The Human Figure, dated 1808 and held by Heidelberg University Library, meant for students learning to draw the body. Its pictures are tonal studies in brown ink or chalk of faces in three-quarter and profile views and of hands in several poses, built with fine hatching and soft stippled shading. A designer could take from them the way fine parallel lines model skin and hair, and the close-cropped, single-subject layouts of the studies.
