The Practice of Art: A Classic Victorian Treatise

The Practice of Art: A Classic Victorian TreatiseOriginally published in 1845 as The Principles & Practice of Art: With Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by the Author, this enduring guide is the work of an English painter and lithographer. J. D. Harding wrote several popular books on art instruction, and this volume constitutes one of his finest. A comprehensive manual geared toward practicing artists, the book features 24 black and white plates of illustrations by Harding that elucidate his

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toward the much higher goal of achieving a morally virtuous life

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reproduced directly from a rare and valuable nineteenth-century publication

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and that he wrote one of the most valuable treatises on the technical methods of the painters

His scherzos are truly novel metamorphoses of the form — tumultuous emotional outpourings that frequently attain tragic heights

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