The American Drawing Book: Manual for the Amateur, Basis of Study for the Professional Artist, by John Gadsby Chapman, 1864
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The American Drawing Book: Manual for the Amateur, Basis of Study for the Professional Artist

Author John Gadsby Chapman (American, Alexandria, Virginia 1808–1889 New York)

Illustrator Asher Brown Durand

Publisher W. J. Widdleton

1864

Medium
illustrations: wood engraving
Classification
Books
Dimensions
book: 12 1/16 x 9 5/8 x 1 7/16 in. (30.7 x 24.4 x 3.6 cm) sheet: 11 11/16 x 8 7/8 in. (29.7 x 22.5 cm)
Culture
American
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art