The Elements of Drawing

Timeless work by one of the greatest art critics of all time begins with bare fundamentals and offers brilliant philosophical advise. "...the truth behind Ruskin's statements is always clear..."-American Artist.

PLATES

A Spanish Chestnut at Carrara (from the drawing by Ruskin in the collection of T. F. Taylor, Esq.)

114

(92)

Lancaster Sands from the engraving of the drawing

206

(1)

J. M. W. Turner

Heysham (from the engraving of the drawing

207

J. M. W. Turner

WOODCUTS AND DIAGRAMS

(Drawn and Cut on the Wood by Miss Byfield from Drawings by the Author)

The Filling of a Square (Exercise I.)

29

(4)

The Gradating of Spaces (Exercise III.)

33

(5)

Tinting Letters into Shape (Exercise V.)

38

(3)

The Outlining of Boughs (Exercise VI.)

41

(8)

How to Draw a Stone (Exercise VIII.)

49

(19)

A Young Shoot of Lilac2

68

(2)

The Disappearance of a Leaf

70

(1)

A Bough of Phillyrea

71

(1)

Upper View and Profile of a Single Spray of the Same

72

(9)

A Tree Trunk (from a woodcut after Titian)

81

(1)

A Sketch

82

(2)

Raphael

Outlines of a Ball, False and True

84

(2)

Part of the Distance in Durer's ``Cannon''

86

(1)

Parts of Durer's ``Flight into Egypt''

87

(1)

Leafage at Root of a Stone Pine

88

(5)

Forms of the Extremities of Trees, False and True

93

(1)

Forms of Separate Boughs, False and True

93

(1)

Conventional Drawing of Boughs

94

(1)

Part of Turner's Etching ``Sheep-Washing''

95

(11)

An Alpine Bridge (seen within a few yards)

106

(1)

The Same (diminishing at distances)

107

(6)

The Hardingesque Foliage

113

(1)

Shoot of Spanish Chestnut (cf. Plate opposite the same page)

114

(1)

Outline of Young Shoot of Oak

115

(6)

A Branch from Turner's ``Aesacus and Hesperie''

121

(1)

Conventional Branch (in the manner of old woodcuts after Titian)

122

(1)

The Same (in the manner of the Carracci)

122

(21)

Diagram Illustrting a Way of Matching Colours

143

(17)

Swiss Cottages

160

(4)

The Law of Principality, in Leaves

164

(2)

Sketch to Illustrate the Same Law in Turner's ``Coblentz''

166

(5)

The Law of Continuity, Illustrated from Turner's ``Calais Sands''

171

(4)

The Law of Curvature, Illustrated from the Bridge in Turner's ``Coblentz''

175

(2)

The Same, Illustrated from the Towers in the Same Drawing

177

(1)

Curves, to Illustrate the Law of Variation in Curvature

178

(1)

Application of the Same Law to Leaves

179

(1)

Types of Tree Trunks, Illustrating Modulation in Curvature

180

(1)

Simplest Type of Radiation in Tree Forms

181

(1)

Perfect Type of the Same

182

(1)

Diagrams showing the Mathematical Centre of Curvature

182

(1)

The Curves of Branches and of Boats

183

(1)

Curve of Young Oak Shoot (Fig. 25) seen from Above

184

(2)

Block Plan of a Leaf of Columbine

186

(7)

Top of an Old Tower, Illustrating the Law of Contrast

193

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