A Course of Water Colour Painting with Twenty-Four Coloured Plates
London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin. Oblong, original cloth boards with gilt title and author upper board, complete with 24 colour plates tipped-in, 37 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads. Restored, with original cloth laid over matching cloth, gilt rules to new spine. N.d., c. 1880. Several plates faded. Very good condition.
Leitch was a watercolorist and illustrator whose father, William Leighton Leitch, served Queen Victoria and her daughters as drawing-master for almost twenty years. This popular manual went through nine editions and was aimed at amateurs, its progressive approach likely influenced by the senior Leitch's extensive teaching experience. (Metropolitan Museum of Art). A manual aimed at teaching water-colour painting technique, with instructive text on the page facing each colour plate. Item #103192
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