Main entry:

Watrous, James, 1908-1999, author. aut

Title & Author:

The craft of old-master drawings / James Watrous

Publication:

Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.
Chicago : Designed by William NiColl, of Edit, Inc.
Philadelphia : Photography by Westcott & Thomson, Inc.
Meriden, Connecticut : Photography and Offset Printing was done at the Meriden Gravure Co.
Long Island City, New York : Binding by the J.F. Tapley Company

Description:

170 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Subtitle on dust jacket: Tools, materials, formulas, recipes, workshop procedures,, and micrphotographic enlargements.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-153) and index.
Part 1 The fine drawing media: I. Metalpoint drawing. Technical requisites ; Physical properties of styluses and grounds ; Characteristics of metalpoint drawing ; Workshop procedures -- II. Chiaroscuro drawsings. Tollks and materials ; Work procedures -- III. Quill pens ; Reed pens ; Metal pens ; Workshop procedures -- IV. Inks for drawing. Black carbon inks ; Iron-gall inks ; Sera ink ; Colored inks and washes ; Workshop procedures --
Part 2 The broad drawing media: V. Chalks, pastels, and crayons. Natural chalks ; Fabricated chalks and pastels ; Crayons ; Workshop procedures -- VI. Charcoal and graphite. Charcoal: sources and characteristics ; Graphite ; Workshop procedues -- Appendix. 1. Commerical and noncommercial sources of materials ; 2. List of masterworks cited
Also issued online.

Summary:

A comprehensive study of the techniques of drawing, this is both a historical work, covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the present, and a useful manual for contemporary artists. This book comprises a body of knowledge that is essential to students of art history, curators, collectors, and artists, and is a significant addition to the literature on drawing. In addition to his scholarly investigation of earlier practices, the author identifies materials and processes used by such important artists as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Romney, Picasso, Michelangelo, Watteau, Holbein, Tiepolo, and Delacroix. For the artist interested in reproducing the effects achieved by these and many other acknowledged masters, there are full discussions and specific directions concerning the making of inks, styluses, reed and quill pens, fabricated chalks, and instructions for preparing grounds for metalpoint drawings. At every step, the discussion is supplemented with illustrations from laboratory experiments and from drawings by both old and contemporary artists. Of the more than sixty illustrations included, thirty-six are reproductions of master works, and among the others there are microphotographic enlargements of detail showing the differences in density and texture produced by various tools on different papers or grounds. Thus, as a collection of master drawings, the book is worthy of the art lover's library; as a technical study, it is an indispensable aid to the art student and practicing artist.

ISBN:

0299014258 (2002 pbk. reprint ; alk. paper)
9780299014254 (2002 pbk. reprint ; alk. paper)
0299014215
9780299014216

Subject:

Drawing Study and teaching.
Drawing History.
Drawing.
Dessin Étude et enseignement.
Dessin Histoire.
Dessin.
drawing (image-making)
21.21 technique and materials of drawing.
21.22 history of drawing.
Tekenkunst.
Techniek.
Materialen.

Form/genre:

Drawing.
handbooks.
History
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.

Holdings:

Location: Library prints and drawings office 125498
Call No.: 0003845 A1053 PD; ID:85-B21665
Status: Available