The Craft of Old-Master Drawing

Watrous, James

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1957

About this Item

Scholarly book on the tools, materials, formulas, recipes, & workshop procedures of traditional fine artists, including silverpoint, quill, reed, & metal pens; ink recipes; chalk, pastels, & crayons; charcoal & graphite. INSCRIBED by the author on the free endsheet: "To Frank: In friendship Jim". Watrous was a painter, muralist, mosaicist and professor at the University of Wisconsin, now best remembered for the Paul Bunyan murals in the Memorial Union and large mosaic on Vilas Hall; Frank was his colleague, art history professor Frank Horlbeck. First edition (first printing), hardcover in jacket as pictured. Book shows light edgewear, dent to bottom edge affecting both boards & the textblock; jacket shows light rubbing, couple of short tears, half-inch chip to upper front panel, light spine fade. Text clean; xiii, blank, 170 pages, diagrams, index, appendix, bibliography, many b/w illustrations. The printing of the illustrations is superior to those in the various reprints. Size: Quarto.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Craft of Old-Master Drawing
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
• Publication Date: 1957
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by the Author
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  • Art History
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