Thomas Eakins’s manual on perspective, originally prepared by the artist for his students at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Eakins’s original text, along with his studies on linear perspective and mechanical drawing, reveal his extraordinary expertise, personality, and teaching philosophy.

Eakins in 1882 was said to be, “the greatest draughtsman in America”. The genesis of this book was prepared for the students of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts. As an independent student and teacher, by removing a loin cloth of a male model in a lecture given to a class including women he defied the Academy’s stated rules and was asked to resign. Loyal students departed with him to form the Art Student’s League of Philadelphia where he lectured gratis for several years and he continued to teach in New York, Brooklyn and Washington on Artistic anatomy.

A Drawing Manual Chapter Headings.
Chapter l Linear Perspective: Tracing a window Pane
Chapter ll Linear Perspective: Picture Plane Established
Chaper lll Linear Perspective: Theory of Vanishing Points
Chapter lV Mechianical Drawing
Chapter V Isometric Drawing
Chapter Vl Reflections in Water
Chapter Vll Sculptured Relief