WOOD, John George.

The Principles and Practise of Sketching Landscape Scenery from Nature, systematically arranged and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects. In four parts.

First edition of J. G. Wood’s last and most ambitious drawing book. Wood was a landscape painter speciallising in watercolour and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1811. Here his drawing lessons deal with sketching cottage scenery, trees and woods, village streets, and general views incorporating grandiose landscape settings and glimpses of houses and villages. Some plates have faint perspective lines drawn on to enable the student to understand the correct perspective.