Six Progressive Lessons For Flower Painting: With Directions for Drawing and Colouring of Flowers, Upon Botanical Principals

by Rudolph Ackermann, publisher

$1,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Contemporary half roan over marbled boards, with printed title label to upper board A Regency flower-painting manual from Ackermann's Repository of Arts, preserving the staged method by which students learned to draw, shade, and colour flowers from engraved models. Published during Rudolph Ackermann's most productive period as a publisher of colour-plate books and artistic instruction, Six Progressive Lessons for Flower Painting belongs to the practical

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