Author: DAVIES, Charles.
Title: A Treatise on Shades and Shadows, and Linear Perspective.
Description: NY, Barnes 1846. Tallish octavo (publisher's?) quarter calf and cloth; 159pp and 21 folding plates. Some spotting but a pretty good, fresh copy. ¶ A worthy and well regarded book, first published in 1832 and reprinted a few times. Is this the first American book on the subject? Gwilt's 'Sciography' (1822) was apparently the first book on shadows in English but Gwilt started translating an earlier French work and, deciding the mathematics was too complex for simple architects, dumbed it down. Davies was a mathematician and this is firmly based in mathematics. He may have made allowances for the artistic - long a euphemism for inept - but I can't tell.
Keywords: art technique drawing architecture theory perspective c19th America mathematics
Title: A Treatise on Shades and Shadows, and Linear Perspective.
Description: NY, Barnes 1846. Tallish octavo (publisher's?) quarter calf and cloth; 159pp and 21 folding plates. Some spotting but a pretty good, fresh copy. ¶ A worthy and well regarded book, first published in 1832 and reprinted a few times. Is this the first American book on the subject? Gwilt's 'Sciography' (1822) was apparently the first book on shadows in English but Gwilt started translating an earlier French work and, deciding the mathematics was too complex for simple architects, dumbed it down. Davies was a mathematician and this is firmly based in mathematics. He may have made allowances for the artistic - long a euphemism for inept - but I can't tell.
Keywords: art technique drawing architecture theory perspective c19th America mathematics
Price: AUD 200.00 = appr. US$ 138.37 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8596
- Book number: 8596