A Treatise on Shades and Shadows and Linear Perspective

Author Charles Davies American

Publisher A. S. Barnes and Co. American

1840

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Title: A Treatise on Shades and Shadows and Linear Perspective
Author: Charles Davies (American, 1798–1856)
Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Co. (New York, NY) and Philadelphia
Published in: Philadelphia
Date: 1840
Medium: Illustrations: engravings
Dimensions: 9 7/8 × 5 7/8 × 1 in. (25.1 × 15 × 2.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954
Object Number: 54.524.10
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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