摘要: The emergence of the ‘complete drawing book’ in mid‐eighteenth‐century E ngland was a remarkable phenomenon. Launched by print sellers as a new educational commodity, this particular type of drawing book exhibited both commercial acumen and cultural ambition by presenting a comprehensive programme to satisfy public desire for drawing instruction. It also embodied a subtle process of cultural assimilation and influence. Various kinds of pictorial model were assembled from diverse sources and organised in a way that visualised the ‘hierarchy of genres’. The complete drawing books thus played a role in shaping public perception of what constituted art within that hierarchy. 出版日期: 2013-09 出處: Journal for eighteenth-century studies, 2013-09, Vol.36 (3), p.395-414 資源來源: Wiley Journals 識別號: ISSN: 1754-0194 識別號: EISSN: 1754-0208 識別號: DOI: 10.1111/1754-0208.12009