The artist's assistant : or, School of science : being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists, the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood, of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather, japanning, dying, casting, &c. with a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories
The Artist's Assistant, or School of Science is a 1807 London handbook issued by T. Ostell, compiled from the earlier work of Carington Bowles (1724-1793) for students and practitioners of painting, drawing, engraving and related crafts. Its plates are engraved geometric diagrams, perspective grids and construction drawings, plus architectural and landscape views, with a finished shaded block shown beside the line work. A designer could take from them the clean logic of perspective construction, ellipse and vanishing-point layouts, and the plain engraved style of instructional plates.
