Practical Directions for Learning Flower-Drawing. Illustrated

by Coloured Drawings by Patrick Syme

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

Original boards rebacked, with printed label title to upper board A finely preserved instructional flower-drawing manual by the Scottish artist Patrick Syme, using progressive plates to guide the student from outline engraving to finished colour plate. Patrick Syme was one of the leading Scottish flower painters of his generation, active in Edinburgh as an artist and drawing master. Practical Directions for Learning Flower-Drawing belongs to the early

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