Le petit dessinateur, ou, Les vrais éléments du dessin enseignés en seize leçons : ouvrage élémentaire adopté pour les écoles normales primaires par M. le Ministre de l'instruction publique
Le petit dessinateur, by J.-P. Voïart, published in Paris in 1842, is an elementary drawing manual of sixteen lessons written for teacher-training schools in France. The pictures are plain line diagrams of geometric solids and construction figures, such as a circle inscribed in a square with diagonals, a cone with its axis, and a half-shaded parallelogram. A designer might take from them the clarity of simple construction lines and how basic forms are built up from geometry.
