The page is from the table of contents of a book on drawing and features chapters focusing on different techniques and methods for art, including landscape studies, copying illustrations, and using the Camera Obscura. Chapter VII discusses various ways to replicate artwork, while Chapter VIII covers the use of a Camera Obscura. An approval note for the manuscript is included at the bottom, highlighting its usefulness to the public.
CONTENTS.
Study of Landscape after the engravings of the great Masters. Page 116
Study of Landscape after drawings & paintings. 117
What is meant by the word studies. 118
General observations on Landscape. 119
On flowers & plants. 122
CHAPTER VII.
Containing various practices & inventions for copying a drawing or a painting.
Method of tracing a drawing. 123
Method of sanding. Ibid.
Method of drawing on glass. 124
To counter-draw a design on a mirror. 125
Method of capturing a painting in a veil. 127
Method to reduce at a small scale. 128
Method of drawing a portrait using small squares. 130
Other practices for copying a drawing. 132
Machine for reducing a drawing without knowing how to draw. 133
CHAPTER VIII.
Description & use of the Camera Obscura for drawing. By M.G.J. s'Gravesande.
ARTICLE FIRST. Definitions & principles. 137
II. Description of the first Camera Obscura. 139
III. Use of the machine to represent objects in their natural arrangement. 141
IV. Representing objects by making right what should be left. 145
V. Method of representing, turn by turn, with the camera obscura, objects in the surroundings of a countryside or a garden amidst which the machine is placed, & making these objects appear corrected before the person seated in the machine. 147
VI. Method of copying paintings or engravings with the camera obscura. 148
VII. The way to represent portraits. 149
VIII. On opening the convex glass. 150
IX. Description of the second machine. 151
X. How to use the second machine. 153
XI. Another camera obscura more portable than the previous. 154
APPROVAL.
I have read, by order of Monseigneur the Chancellor, a Manuscript titled Method for learning drawing, with Figures; & I believe the publication of this Work can only be very useful to the Public. In Paris, this 12th of February 1754. COCHIN.
Translation Notes:
"Camera Obscura" is an early method and apparatus for projecting images, often used for drawing.