Drawing from nature : a series of progressive instructions in sketching, to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School
A London drawing manual of 1877 by George Barnard, published by Routledge, teaching sketching from nature with lectures on art given at Rugby School. Its pictures are fine pen-and-ink studies of branches from trees, including a conifer spray with cones, a chestnut-like branch with burs, an ash-like pinnate sprig, and a broad-leaved twig with catkins, drawn with hatched shading and set beside printed text. A designer could take their clear botanical line work and hatching as a model for plant studies.
