Vere Foster's new series of Water-Color Drawing-books, a series of handbooks for use of young students of pictorial art

Abstract

[Except] The great success of the rudimental books of this Popular Drawing Series, when published first (now nearly Twenty years since), led to the development of the scheme on a larger scale than was originally contemplated. In process of time almost every Branch of Drawing had been added, and the course had reached fifty numbers. Encouraged by the favourable notice the books received, and especially by the results that were obtained, as shown by the annual competitions (instituted in 1859), Mr. Vere Foster was induced to add a further section of Artistic Copy-Books to his series. These were very successful, and being very moderate in price, they seemed to popularize the taste for Drawing in Water-Colors. Many of the Examples of the earlier Colored Books were beautifully copied by young people in remote parts of the Empire, and who had never even seen Water-Color Drawing-Books until these were published.