470 Catalogue of Worlcs on Gardening, fyc. 



objects, and to shade and colour them so as to make pictures ; while the 

 object of the little work, the title of which we have given above, is to teach 

 the delineation of single objects on sound and simple principles. The perusal 

 of the two following works, and of Gilpin's Essay on Prints, will greatly 

 assist young men in acquiring a knowledge of what is right and wrong in 

 pictures ; or what is to be imitated or avoided in natural or artificial land- 

 scape. It is surprising, as we have elsewhere observed, that the Horticultural 

 societies, and especially that of London, do not offer prizes for drawings by 

 gardeners, and particularly for ground plans, maps, sections, and other drawings 

 of garden structures. 



The Sketched s Manual ; or, the ivhole Art of Picture-making reduced to the 

 simplest Principles, by which Amateurs may instruct themselves without the Aid 

 of a Master. By Frank Howard. 8vo, 28 plates, pp. 79. London, 1837. 

 Price Is. Qd. 



The following extract from the advertisement will give the reader a very 

 good idea of the object of this work. Most of the numerous works on the 

 art of drawing and painting, which have been called forth by the almost uni- 

 versal desire to draw, are liable to objections. The elementary works " de- 

 scribe the mode of holding the pencil, represent the particular touch adapted 

 to delineate certain trees, and provide drawings, varying in complexity and 

 difficulty, as examples for the student; but they give no principles upon which 

 the examples are, or drawings in general should be, made : they give no indi- 

 cation of what constitutes a picture. 



" The objects in a drawing may be accurately outlined, and shaded very cor- 

 rectly, very neatly and delicately finished, and yet it shall be less pleasing than 

 a light sketch, having no pretension to accuracy of outline or detail, but which 

 possesses the charm of pictorial effect. The term picture is here used in a 

 general sense, as meaning an agreeable object, or combination of objects, for 

 contemplation ; and pictorial effect is the term applied to that quality which 

 distinguishes a picture from a diagram or map. 



" In what does this magical power consist ? Is it difficult of comprehension 

 or attainment? 



" The answers to these two questions will not be found in any work on the 

 art, whether elementary or scientific. Yet there can be no doubt, that the 

 desideratum with amateurs and artists, and particularly with sketchers, is not 

 only to represent forms, but to make pictures ; to place the object or objects 

 before the spectator, under pleasing circumstances, or with what is termed 

 pictorial effect. 



" The deficiency, it will be the endeavour of the present work to supply. 



Colour, as a Means of Art ; being an Adaptation of the Experience of Professors 

 to the Practice of Amateurs. By Frank Howard. 8vo, 17 coloured plates, 

 pp. 106. London, 1838. Price 10s. 6d. 



" In the Sketcher's Manual, the general principles of making pictures in 

 black and white, or, as it is technically termed, in chiaroscuro, have been 

 briefly, but, it is hoped, distinctly explained. The following work on colour- 

 ing proceeds upon the same method. It treats, first, of the arrangements of 

 masses of colours, which have been established by various masters or schools, 

 and which have been recognised as satisfactory or agreeable by the public 

 voice ; it then points out the abstract principles to which these several 

 arrangements may be referred ; and, finally, directs attention to the qualities 

 of colouring in art, which are requisite, as regards the imitation of nature." 

 (Pref p. 7.) 



" What is known of art, may be as easily communicated as any other fact, 

 and as easily acquired as a knowledge of history, or any other appeal to the 

 memory, and is indispensable, equally to the critic and to the amateur." (Intro- 

 duction, p. 14. 



