Zeichenbuch für Künstler und Liebhaber der freyen Handzeichnung : insbesondere als ein nöthiger Theil der Erziehung höherer Bestimmung behandelt
A German drawing manual by Johann Quirin Jahn, printed in Prague in 1781 for artists and amateurs as part of higher education in freehand drawing. Its plates show academic figure studies: a rotated nude male figure, sanguine studies of torsos and limbs, a pair of wrestling figures in an oval frame, and sheets of hands in pen and wash. A designer can take from them a compact method of building the body from simplified masses and tonal shading, with the hands sheets useful for gesture and pose reference.
