Grundlinien einer Theorie der Zeichenkunst als Zweiges allgemeiner Schulbildung nebst praktischer Anleitung für Lehrer und Lehrerinnen von Gustav Adolph Hippius aus Reval, Lehrer der Zeichenkunst an mehreren kaiserl. Erziehungsanstalten in St. Petersburg. -
St. Petersburg ; Leipzig: in Commission bei Eggers und Co. ; in Commission bei Rudolph Hartmann, 1842
Physical Description
2 volumes : illustrations ; 8° & Oblong 4°
General Note
Vol. 1. [Text] xiv, 433, [3] pages ; 22 cm. Vol. 2. [Plates] X, 17 pages ; illustrations ; 19 x 23 cm.
The title of Volume 2 differs from that of Volume 1: `Zeichnungen zu den Grundlinien Zeichenkunst' [Drawings to the Basic lines of drawing art]. Volume 1 is the text volume. Volume 2 comprises of X leaves of line-drawings followed by 17 leaves which are blank other than seemingly randomly placed black dots and numbers.
Contents
Vol. 1: [T.p., dedic.] - Inhalt - Vorrede - Hochachtbare Vorgesetzte - Einleitung - [Text] - Verzeichniss der in Hergang's Handbuch ...; [colophon] - Nachricht an den Buchbinder - Berichtigungen.
Responsibility Note
The work is dedicated to Eduard Höpner and Karl Walther.
References
D. Dethloff, Drawing: masters and methods, Raphael to Redon (1992); G. Monnier and B. Rose, History of an art: drawing (1979).
Provenance
Presented by the author in 1843.
Binding Note
19th-century green cloth; red morocco spine-label lettered 'G.A.Hippius. Grundlinien einer Theorie der Zeichenkunst.' (Vol. 1). Paper covers titled on upper cover. (Vol. 2).
Subject
Drawing - Theory
Treatises - Manuals - Germany - Russia - 19th century