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DRAWING MANUAL - BOTANICAL TESTOLINI (GAETANO) Rudiments of Drawing, Shadowing, and Colouring Flowers in Water Colors; Contained in Thirty-Six Instructive Lessons... Intended for Beginners and Students of this Delightful Art. With a Description of Colours Used & the Method of Mixing Them, FIRST EDITION, H.K. Causton for G. Testolini, 1818
11 March 2020, 13:00 GMT
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DRAWING MANUAL - BOTANICAL
TESTOLINI (GAETANO) Rudiments of Drawing, Shadowing, and Colouring Flowers in Water Colors; Contained in Thirty-Six Instructive Lessons... Intended for Beginners and Students of this Delightful Art. With a Description of Colours Used & the Method of Mixing Them, FIRST EDITION, pictorial aquatint frontispiece, 29 engraved plates of flowers (18 hand-coloured), hand-colored table of colours, contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, original red morocco title label on upper cover, rubbed, small loss to foot of spine [Dunthorne 300; Nissen BBI 1946; Prideaux 213], oblong folio (255 x 400mm.), H.K. Causton for G. Testolini, 1818
Footnotes
Described by Dunthorne as "perhaps the finest of all drawing books of the period", Rudiments is one of the few books in which aquatint is used to illustrate botanical subjects. Each flower is shown in three states (outline, aquatint, hand-coloured), although in this copy 3 of the "aquatint" states have been additional hand-coloured.
Provenance William Pike(?), Bolton, 1837, inscription on front pastedown.