[Rarebooks] FS: 1850 Guide to Nature Painting in Watercolor, Pencil

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"An Elementary Treatise on Sketching from Nature: with the Principles of
Light and Shade, the Theory of Colours, &c."

By John Wood.

Published in Worcester; Whittaker and Co.: [1850].

An engaging provincial art manual, intended to give readers practical
instruction on drawing, sketching, perspective, light & shade, colors, and
figures. For the Victorians there was not only profit to be gained from
attaining artistic skills, but by better understanding nature as well, and
Wood notes that “the contemplation of nature” gives “an ample reward for
any time and pains we may bestow in its attainment”. The two hand-colored
plates are also quite charming- the frontispiece shows an artist’s palette
with primary, secondary and tertiary colors, and the other shows three
stages in the coloring of a landscape with watercolors. Uncommon.

Hardcover. 6.25”x10”, 52 pages plus 7 engraved plates, 2 hand-colored.
Publisher’s embossed cloth with gilt title. Covers just a little worn and
with light soil, lightly chipped at the spine head and base, light
internal soil and a few spots, small marginal stain. Binder’s ticket of
Remnant & Edmonds, London. $250.00

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