With Compressed Leaves, made of thin and thick White, Drab, Yellow, and Grey Drawing Papers, forming a solid packet of thirty or forty leaves, each of which can be easily separated from the others by the introduction of a pen-knife underneath.
| Demy | 20 by 15 |
| Medium | 22 — 17 |
| Royal | 24 — 19 |
| Super Royal | 27 — 19 |
| Imperial | 30 — 21 |
| Colombier | 34 — 23 |
| Atlas | 34 — 26 |
| Double Elephant | 40 — 26 |
| Antiquarian | 52 — 31 |
| Extra Antiquarian | 56 — 40 |
Made pure and perfectly free from any chemical agency that will tend to fade the Colours or alter their Tint. Recommended to those who paint with Body Colours, &c.
| Compressed Paper, in Packets |
| Sketching Books of all kinds |
| Sketching Folios and Portfolios |
| Albums and Scrap Books |
| Sketching Books, with Boxes attached |
| Sketching Desks for the Neck |
| Parlour's Patent Sketching Instrument and Camera Lucidas and Obscuras |
| Desks, with Colours, &c., for ditto |
| Stands and Tables for ditto |
| Camp and other Seats for Sketching |
| Japanned Tin Boxes, with Moist Colours, Cups, Bottles, &c., for Sketching |
| Fixed Sketching Inks and Reed Pens |
| Ditto, in Cases for Travelling, &c. |
| Drawing and Sketching Boards |
| Liquid Sepia, for Drawing |
| Leather Cases, for Colours, Brushes, &c. |
| Creta Lævis Crayons, or different Colours that work dry or with water |
| Portable Cases, containing a Seat, Book, Box, &c. for Sketching |
| Artists' Umbrellas, to shade the sun |
| Seat and Table combined, for Sketching |
| India Rubber Water Bottles |
| India Ink of the finest quality, warranted genuine |
For straining thick or thin Drawing Paper more efficiently, and much more easily, without pasting or cutting; also fitted up with Colours, Brushes, Saucers, &c.
| Prepared Paper and Millboards, for Sketching from Nature, &c. |
| Prepared Panels and Cloths, and Tickens on or off frames |
| Tin Boxes for Oil Colours, &c. |
| Portable ditto for Sketching |
| Oil Colours in Cakes and Bottles (see Wilson's Letter) |
| Tin Oil Cups, and Cups for Washing Brushes |
| Steel, Ivory, and Horn Palette Knives |
| Mahogany and Satin Wood Palettes |
| Bladder Colours, Powder Colours, and Raw Colours |
| Rack, Folding, and Upright Easels |
| Desk and Table Easels |
| Nut, Poppy, Linseed, and Drying Oils |
| Mastic, Copal, and Spirit Varnishes |
| Turpentine Gold Size, Asphaltum and M'Guelph |
| Glass, Stone, and Earthen Slabs and Mullers |
| Maul or Rest Sticks |
| Charcoal and Pipe Clay |
| Bladder Colour Nobs |
| Oil Box and Easel combined |
| C. Smith's new invented Telescope portable Cane Easels, extremely light, for Sketching |
| Compressed Oil Papers for Sketches |
For Sketching, so contrived, that any person with a slight knowledge of Drawing can use them without difficulty, straining the sight, or previous practice. The images, being reflected on paper, require nothing more than tracing their outlines.
| Mathematical Instruments |
| Dividers and Compasses |
| Tee Squares and Triangles |
| Flat, Parallel and Stationer's Rulers |
| Tracers, Erasing and Pen Knives |
| Drawing Pins and Indian Glue |
| Crow Quills and Pens |
| Deal and Mahogany Clamped Boards |
| Boxes of Juvenile Colours, &c. |
| Conte's Black, White, and Red Chalks |
| Vancouver's Cement for mending China |
| Black Lead Powder, and Crayons for Stumping |
| Best Italian Black, White, and Red Chalks, in Crayons and Pencils |
| Lithographic and French Chalks |
| Cabinet Saucers in Cases |
| Indian Rubber and Sponge |
| Black Lead, in Cakes, for Mezzotinting |
| Indelible Marking Ink, for Linen |
| Ox Gall, in Pots and Liquid |
| Gold and Silver, in Shells, Saucers, and Leaves |
| Gold, Silver, Copper, and Green Bronzes |
| Ivories for Miniature Painting |
| Gum Water for ditto, &c. |
| Leather, Paper, and Cork Stamps |
| Improved Holders and Portcrayons |
| Harding's Silver Crayon Holders |
| Oriental Tinting Paper |
| White and Coloured Tissue Paper |
| Sponge Pencils |
A M'Guelph, or Medium, for using with Water-Colours, either transparent or semi-opaque, for obtaining opaque masses of colour or glazing. Drying slower than water, and not so fluid, enables the touch to be preserved where required without hard ridges.
| Soft Swiss and French Crayons |
| Harding's Lithographic Drawing Books |
| Sketches, Tinted Paper, &c. |
| Fixing Liquid for Chalk Drawings, &c. |
| Varley's and Hayter's Perspectives |
| Cooper's Studies of Cattle |
| Modelling Tools |
| Leather and Paper Pencil Cases |
| Finest Quality Indian Ink |
| Best Clear Vellum |
| Ink Stones and Saucers |
| Slabs, Tiles, and Palettes in great variety |
| Ivory and other Pencil Racks |
| Glass Frames for Tracing |
| Graining Combs |
| Photogenic Materials |
| Patterns for Irregular Lines |
| Fixing Liquid for Chalk Drawings, &c. |
| New Perspective Parallel Rulers |
| Prout's Hints on Light, Shadow, &c. |
| —— Figures for Landscapes, &c. |
| Merimeé's Oil Painting |
| Cawse's ditto |
| Howard's Sketcher's Manual |
| —— on Colour |
| Laporte's Studies of Trees |
A great variety of Juvenile Lithographic Drawing Books of Landscapes, Animals, and the Human Figure, and other Popular Works on Drawing and Painting.
For the practice of young students in obtaining a knowledge of the first rudiments of Perspective Drawing, Light and Shade, &c. with numerous illustrations explanatory of the infinite variety of useful Drawing Studies they are capable of forming together. To be had complete in boxes, price 10s. 6d. and £1 1s.
A variety of Miniature Models of Churches, Cottages, Castles, &c. &c.; lent out for the use of early in-door Landscape Students, as a substitute for Nature.
October, 1841.
HARDING'S DRAWING BOOK, 1841. Sketches in Sepia and Chalk, partly original and partly selected. Six Nos. 3s. 6d. each; half morocco, 24s.
SKETCHES AT HOME AND ABROAD, containing more than Sixty Views, tinted in imitation of the Original Drawings. Imperial folio, half-bound morocco, £6. 6s.
*** This splendid work has been entirely drawn on Stone by Mr. Harding himself, and printed under his immediate inspection. The resemblance to the Original Sketches is complete, and each Subject may be considered as a bonâ fide and first-rate Drawing.
ELEMENTARY ART: THE USE OF THE LEAD-PENCIL ADVOCATED AND EXPLAINED. New Edition. Imperial 4to. cloth, price £2. 2s.
*** The object of this work is to teach the young Student and the Amateur, by the practical use of the simplest (but most valuable) instrument in art—the Lead-pencil—how they may study Nature and acquire Art with the certainty of eventual success, and also to furnish them with assistance to which they may continually refer in the absence of their Master. The work is illustrated by Twenty-eight Lithographic Drawings by Mr. Harding, and he has followed as nearly as possible the course which his experience in actual instruction has suggested to him.
HARDING'S DRAWING BOOK, 1837. Each Number of this Work contains Four Studies, including in the whole a great variety of subjects. The whole are printed on India Paper, price 3s. each Part; or 21s. neatly half-bound.
HARDING'S DRAWING BOOK, 1838. A Series of advanced Studies, printed in Mr. Harding's new tinted style. Imperial 4to. Six Nos. 3s. each; or, neatly half-bound morocco, 21s.
HARDING'S PORTFOLIO. Twenty-four highly-finished Sketches, tinted in exact imitation of the Original Drawings. Half-morocco, price 21s.; or, coloured, 31s. 6d.
HARDING'S EARLY DRAWING BOOK, consisting entirely of Elementary Studies for Beginners. Six Nos. 1s. 6d. each; or, bound in cloth, 10s. 6d.
PROUT'S MICROCOSM; or Artist's Sketch-Book of Groups of Figures, Shipping, and other Picturesque Objects. By Samuel Prout, F.S.A. Printed in tints. Imperial 4to. Six Nos. 4s. each, or, neatly bound, 24s.
PROUT'S ELEMENTARY DRAWING BOOK of Landscapes, Buildings, &c. Six Nos. 1s. 6d.; cloth, 10s. 6d.
SKETCH BOOK OF SHIPPING AND CRAFT. By W. M. Grundy. In Progressive Studies. Six Nos. 1s. 6d.; cloth, 10s. 6d.
ANDREW'S PROGRESSIVE DRAWING BOOK OF FLOWERS. Six Nos. coloured, 1s. 6d.; cloth, very neat, 9s.
BARRAUD'S STUDIES OF ANIMALS. Lithographed by Fairland. Six Nos. large 4to. 3s.; or coloured, 5s.
JULIEN'S STUDIES OF HEADS. Selected or Drawn from Nature. Six Nos. 2s,; cloth, 14s.
WORSLEY'S LITTLE DRAWING BOOK. Easy Studies in Landscapes, Houses, &c. Fourteen Nos. 6d.; or two vols, cloth, 4s. each.
ZEITTER'S STUDIES OF ANIMALS AND RUSTIC GROUPS. Six. Nos. 1s.; cloth, 7s. 6d.
THE LITTLE SKETCH BOOK. Very easy Studies in Landscapes, Figures, &c. By G. Childs. New and improved Edition, Fourteen Nos. 6d.; or in 2 vols, cloth, 4s. each.
FAIRLAND'S JUVENILE ARTIST. Figures, Landscapes, and Shipping. Eight Nos. 1s.; or cloth, 8s.
COOPER'S STUDIES OF ANIMALS. Eight Nos. 2s.; or 16s. bound.
LESSONS IN FLOWER PAINTING. Drawn and coloured after Nature, by James Andrews. Six Nos. 2s. 6d.; cloth gilt, 16s.
FAIRLAND'S DRAWING BOOK OF THE HUMAN FIGURE. In a Series of Progressive Studies. Twelve Nos. 2s.; or 2 vols, cloth, 12s. each.
CHILD'S ELEMENTARY DRAWING BOOK. Studies from Nature, in Progressive Lessons. Eight Nos. 9d.; cloth, 7s. 6d.
HARLEY'S LANDSCAPE DRAWING BOOK. Six Nos. 1s.; cloth, 7s. 6d.
PHILLIPS' FAMILIAR LIFE. Etchings of Figures, Groups, &c. Three Nos. 1s. 6d.
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