| Book | Requires cookie* | 1 | Title: | Elements of drawing and flower painting: in opaque and transparent water-colours
| | | Creator: | Perkins, Elizabeth Steele. | | | Publication: | T. Hurst, 65, St. Paul's Church-yard, London,1834 | | | Notes: | Half-title: On drawing and flower painting. Publisher's catalog: p. [1-4] at end. Wood-engraved title vignette. Hand-colored rectangles, depicting the color palette used, on same pages as letterpress. Steel-engraved plates. Frontispiece and two of the plates are hand-colored stipple engravings. Plate numbers in text refer to lesson numbers; there is no plate no. I. Letter to the author from Sir John Conroy, dated from Norris Castle, 29 August 1833, granting her permission to name H.R>H. the Duchess of Kent as her patron: tipped in preceding p. [v] | | | Call #: | NC815 P4 | | | Extent: | xvi, 50, [5] p., [15] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (steel-engravings) ; 15 cm. | | | Subjects: | Drawing -- Study and teaching | Botanical illustration
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 4 | Title: | Landon School of Illustrating and Cartooning Records
| | | Creator: | Landon School of Ilustrating and Cartooning | | | Dates: | 1910-1929 | | | Abstract: | The Landon School of Illustrating and Cartooning was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1909 by C.N. Landon, who was an illustrator for the Cleveland press, art director for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, and an art director for Cosmopolitan magazine. The school provided mail-order correspondence courses in drawing for publication, focusing heavily upon the caricature style popular in the 1910s that included exaggerated action, heavily textured images, and clean lines. Among those who took Landon's courses were cartoonists Ethel Hays, Roy Crane, and Carl Barks. The school closed in 1937 upon the death of Landon. The collection consists of lesson books. | | | Call #: | MS 5062 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Landon, C. N. (Charles Nelson), 1879-1937. | Landon School of Illustrating and Cartooning (Cleveland, Ohio) | Correspondence schools and courses -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Drawing -- Study and teaching. | Cartooning -- Study and teaching.
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