The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work, elegantly engraved on eighty quarto copper-plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art ... collected from the works of the greatest masters : to which is prefixed an essay on drawing, with introductory rules for the use of learners ..
A 1797 London drawing manual published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle for art learners, with eighty engraved copper plates gathered from older masters. The plates show studies of heads in chalk-like line, a rotated landscape titled after a view of Chilla Hill, and etched portraits of a fur-capped woman and a turbaned bearded man. A designer can take from them a clear model of tonal hatching and how figure studies were taught to beginners.
