Primi elementi della pittura raccolti da varj auttori per uso de principianti del dissegno et intagliati ad instanza di Lelio dalla Volpe in Bologna
A 1728 Bologna drawing manual, published by Lelio dalla Volpe and engraved from work gathered by Lodovico Mattioli, aimed at beginning art students learning to draw. The pictures are engraved studies of feet, hands, lips, noses and heads, many sheets showing several body parts at once. A designer could take from them the clean hatched-line technique of old copper engraving and the practice of grouping isolated anatomical fragments on one plate.
