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• 18th century

• Drawing -- 18th century

• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), by Perrin Stein and Mary Tavener Holmes (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Mary L. Myers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Eighteenth Century in Italy (Drawings from New York Collections series, vol. 3; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971), by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Eighteenth-Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990), by Jacob Bean and William Griswold (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v6; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1987), by James Byam Shaw, contrib. by George Knox (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Eighteenth-Century Italian Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), by George Szabó (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• When Phantasie Takes Flight: The Art and Imagination of Arthur Rackham (online version of U-Florida exhibit catalog; ca. 2014), ed. by Suzan A. Alteri and John Ingram (illustrated HTML at Florida)
• The Art of Illustration (second edition; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1896), by Henry Blackburn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (third edition; London and New York: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• How to Draw: A Practical Book of Instruction in the Art of Illustration (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Leon Barritt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jacob Bean and Lawrence Turčić (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v5; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1991), by Anna Forlani Tempesti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), by Janet S. Byrne (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Musée du Louvre, Paris: Roman, Tuscan, and Emilian Schools, 1500-1575 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Roseline Bacou and Françoise Viatte (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jacob Bean and Lawrence Turčić (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v5; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1991), by Anna Forlani Tempesti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Seventeenth Century in Italy (Drawings from New York Collections series, vol. 2; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967), by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle (page images with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v5; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1991), by Anna Forlani Tempesti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing or Colouring of Maps and Prints (London; M. Simmons, 1652), by Thomas Jenner (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Book Arts of Isfahan: Diversity and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Persia (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, c1995), by Alice Taylor (multiple formats via The Getty)

• Nineteenth Century French Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by George Szabó (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Doreen Bolger, Mary Wayne Fritzsche, Jacqueline Hazzi, Marjorie Shelley, Gail Stavitsky, Mary L. Sullivan, Marc Vincent, and Elizabeth Wylie (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Drawings and Watercolors (Robert Lehman Collection series v8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1992), by Carol Clark (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Jane M. Rabb (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• American Drawings (1964), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Lawrence Alloway and Thomas M. Messer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Doreen Bolger, Mary Wayne Fritzsche, Jacqueline Hazzi, Marjorie Shelley, Gail Stavitsky, Mary L. Sullivan, Marc Vincent, and Elizabeth Wylie (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Drawings and Watercolors (Robert Lehman Collection series v8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1992), by Carol Clark (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 April through 3 June 1973 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1973), by Dianne H. Pilgrim, contrib. by John K. Howat (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1965), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Alessandra Comini, James Demetrion, Johannes Dobai, and Thomas M. Messer, illust. by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele (multiple formats at archive.org)

• European Drawings (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1966), ed. by Lawrence Alloway (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Persian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), by Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Sussan Babaie (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Architectural and Ornament Drawings: Juvarra, Vanvitelli, the Bibiena Family, and Other Italian Draughtsmen (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), ed. by Mary L. Myers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Musée du Louvre, Paris: Roman, Tuscan, and Emilian Schools, 1500-1575 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by Roseline Bacou and Françoise Viatte (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Italian Renaissance (Drawings from New York Collections series, vol. 1; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965), by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle (page images with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2009), by Melanie Holcomb, contrib. by Lisa Bessette, Barbara Drake Boehm, Evelyn M. Cohen, Kathryn B. Gerry, Ludovico V. Geymonat, Aden Kumler, Lawrence Nees, William Noel, Wendy Alpern Stein, Faith Wallis, Karl Whittington, Elizabeth Williams, and Nancy Y. Wu (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), by Perrin Stein and Mary Tavener Holmes (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2008), by Timothy Husband, contrib. by Margaret Lawson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), by Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Stefano Carboni, contrib. by A. H. Morton and Tomoko Masuya (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• English Coloured Books, by Martin Hardie (page images at CMU)

• Fine Books (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1912), by Alfred W. Pollard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1876), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Line and Form (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Sehen und Zeichnen: Vortrag Gehalten auf dem Rathause zu Zürich, 1. Februar 1894 (in German; Basel: B. Schwabe, 1894), by Albert Heim
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Illuminated Manuscripts, by J. A. Herbert (page images at CMU)
• A Manual of Illumination on Paper and Vellum (eighth edition; London: Winsor and Newton, ca. 1861), by John W. Bradley, T. G. Goodwin, and J. J. Laing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (third edition; London and New York: G. Bell and Sons, 1905), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.