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Grammigraphia, or the Grammar of Drawing: A System of Rules, Which, by Easy Rules, Communicates its Principles, and Shews How it is to be Presented by Lines; Distinguishing the Real Figure in Nature from the Appearance, or Shewing the Appearance from the Reality; Rendering Visual Observation More Correct and Interesting; and Proposing the Pleasure and Universality of the Science

Written and published William Robson British
Printer W. Wilson British

1799

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Title: Grammigraphia, or the Grammar of Drawing: A System of Rules, Which, by Easy Rules, Communicates its Principles, and Shews How it is to be Presented by Lines; Distinguishing the Real Figure in Nature from the Appearance, or Shewing the Appearance from the Reality; Rendering Visual Observation More Correct and Interesting; and Proposing the Pleasure and Universality of the Science

Author: Written and published William Robson (British, active ca. 1800)

Printer: W. Wilson (London)

Date: 1799

Medium: Illustrations: relief prints

Dimensions: 11 × 3 1/2 in. (27.9 × 8.9 cm)

Classification: Books

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953

Accession Number: 53.502.3

Chronology

Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1800 A.D.

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