Hints on sketching from nature
Hints on sketching from nature is a London drawing manual published by G. Rowney in 1874, written by N. E. Green for amateur and student artists working outdoors. The pictures show engraved views of portable sketching equipment: a hinged paint box with rows of cake colour pans, a bound sketchbook with a ribbon marker and a cord, and a set of pointed pencils or brushes drawn in three sizes. A designer could take from them the plain, tool-focused look of nineteenth-century trade catalogue illustration, with crisp hatching and simple line shading.
