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For the curious young gentlemen and ladies : that study and practise the ... art of drawing, ... a new and compleat drawing-book; ... Being the close study, ... of the late Mr. Lens, ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. ... To which is prefixed, an introduction to drawing; ... Translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C. A. Du Fresnoy

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1751.
Call number: 378214
Creator: Lens, Bernard (1682-1740)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (oblong 8vo)
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