MAASKAMP, Evert.
Handleiding voor jonge kunstenaars, in het teekenen van landschappen naar de natuur; de behandeling van papier, waterverwen, oostindische inkt, biestre- en neutrale kleur; benevens onderigting in het aanleggen der luchten, verschieten en voorgronden; het kleuren en opwerken; mitsgaders het kleuren van gravures. Naar de beroemdste Zwitzersche en Engelsche kunstenaars, en uit eigene ondervinding.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1827. 8vo. With folding engraved frontispiece and 6 plates (2 engraved plates and 4 aquatints, incl. 1 coloured by hand). Contemporary boards. VIII, 71, [1 blank] pp.
€ 750
First edition of a guide for young artists detailing the craft of drawing landscapes, including the rendition of shadows, use of water colour and hand-colouring of engraved prints. The author Evert Maaskamp (1769-1834), at the time a well-known Dutch engraver and print publisher, made all but one of the plates. They include the same two landscape scenes in two and three different techniques (engraving, aquatint, and hand-coloured aquatint), a romantic scene with a tree in the foreground and a bridge in the back, and a frontispiece with guide lines for (horizon) perspective.
With a 5 cm tear along a fold of the frontispiece and a tiny tear in the margin, the boards slightly rubbed along the extremities, and the spine discoloured. Generally in good condition. Cf. V.d. Aa XII, p. 22 (2nd ed.).
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