A Series of Progressive Lessons Intended to Elucidate the Art of Flower Painting in Water Colours

1818

Not on view

32 pages, 12 aquatint plates, red leather back, boards. Printed label on the front cover. 1: Shade and Colours, 2: Outline of Leaves, 3: Finished Leaves, 4: Dead colouring of leaves, 5: Finished Leaves, 6: Jonquils, 7: Carnation, 8: Apple, 9: Moss Rose, 10: Tulip, 11: Auricula, 12: Group of Flowers.

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Title: A Series of Progressive Lessons Intended to Elucidate the Art of Flower Painting in Water Colours
Author: Written and aquatinted by John Hill (American (born England), London 1770–1850 Clarksville, New York)
Illustrator: Possibly after Louis François Thomas Francia (French, Calais 1772–1839 Calais (active England))
Publisher: M. Thomas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Printer: James Maxwell (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date: 1818
Medium: Illustrations: aquatints, some hand colored
Dimensions: 11 x 8 7/8 in. (27.9 x 22.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Carl W. Drepperd, 1954
Object Number: 54.553.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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