Elements of Drawing, In a Series of Examples Extracted from Pictures Painted by, and in the Gallery of Benjamin West, Esq., Historical Painter to the King, President of the Royal Academy, &c. &c.
Engraver Edward Scriven British
After Benjamin West American
Publisher Thomas Clay British
Not on view
Original brown cover, 2 pages of text, 11 plates.
Plate 1: in outline, male head looking up and right (Israelite (reversed) from "Moses Receiving the Laws," ca. 1784 (Staley 259), child's head, from "Cupid Stung by a Bee, 1796-1802 (Staley 133), female head looking left, from "The Continence of Scipio," ca. 1766 (Staley 18).
Plate 2: male head looking up and right (Israelite (reversed) from "Moses Receiving the Laws," ca. 1784 (Staley 259), child's head, from "Cupid Stung by a Bee," 1796-1802 (Staley 133), female head looking left, from "The Continence of Scipio," ca. 1766 (Staley 18).
Plate 3: Rows of ears, noses; noses and mouths.
Plate 4: Rows of eyes, noses and mouths.
Plate 5: Three male heads (center: Colin Fitzgerald, from "Alexander III of Scotland Saved from a Stage by Colin Fitzgerald," 1784, Staley 54; left and right: Barnabus and Paul, from "Paul and Barnabus Receiving the Gentiles," 1793, Staley 396).
Plate 6: Legs of two men, a woman and a child.
Plate 7: Eyes and ears, female classical head, the Apollo Belvedere.
Plate 8: Male hands and arms holding a spear, a cross and a cloth, a female arm holding a cloth.
Plate 9: Male hands.
Plate 10: Feet of men, women and children.
Plate 11: Partial heads of a man, two women and a child.
