On Drawing Trees and Nature: A Classic Victorian Manual by J. D. Harding

By J. D. Harding

This vintage of paintings guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the nice Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought consistently to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the device, or fabric hired, will admit of; no longer lots by way of bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these principles that are woke up through a contemplation of Nature . . . The renewal of these emotions constitutes the genuine function of Art."
This quantity involves direct reproductions of Harding's sketches of vignettes from average settings. every one is followed via a sequence of classes emphasizing either useful and theoretical concerns. The version gains the further appeal of 23 amazing plates from the author's Lessons on Trees.

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On Drawing Trees and Nature: A Classic Victorian Manual (Dover Art Instruction)

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