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Book/Printed Material The artist's assistant; or School of Science Artist's assistant / School of Science

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Title

  • The artist's assistant; or School of Science : Being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists; the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood; of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather; japanning, dying, casting, &c. With a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories.

Other Title

  • Artist's assistant
  • School of Science

Names

  • Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for T. Ostell, by Swinney and Ferrall, Birmingham, 1807.

Headings

  • -  Art--Technique
  • -  Drawing--Study and teaching
  • -  Formulas, recipes, etc

Notes

  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2476
  • -  LC copy: Provenance: Bookplate of Howard C. Levis.
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-09-03 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-06-01 update (1 card)
  • -  Rosenwald collection copy listed without call number in Rosenwald bibliography. LAC ddw 2022-06-01

Medium

  • xvi, 296 p. : plates ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • N7430 .A7 1807

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 50047434

Online Format

  • online text
  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Levis, Howard Coppuck, Former Owner, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. The artist's assistant; or School of Science: Being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists; the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood; of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather; japanning, dying, casting, &c. With a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories. London: Printed for T. Ostell, by Swinney and Ferrall, Birmingham, 1807. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/50047434/.

APA citation style:

Levis, H. C. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1807) The artist's assistant; or School of Science: Being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists; the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood; of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather; japanning, dying, casting, &c. With a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories. London: Printed for T. Ostell, by Swinney and Ferrall, Birmingham. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/50047434/.

MLA citation style:

Levis, Howard Coppuck, Former Owner, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. The artist's assistant; or School of Science: Being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists; the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood; of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather; japanning, dying, casting, &c. With a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories. London: Printed for T. Ostell, by Swinney and Ferrall, Birmingham, 1807. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/50047434/>.