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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
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Campion, G
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Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
1
Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
1
Holmden, Richard, 1813–1890
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Jones, William, writing master
1
Langton, John, active 1700–1727
1
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
1
Morphett, John
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Pease family
1
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
1
Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797
1
Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
1
Shepherd, Charles C
1
Smith, Henry D
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Watson, Mary Grace, 1786–1853
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1727
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1890
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
24
Free to Use
1
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Available
1
Classification
Books
13
Archives & Manuscripts
6
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
5
Articles & Chapters
1
Creator Gender
unknown
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Period
19th century
17
18th century
8
20th century
1
Work Type
writing book
15
copy books (penmanship)
9
blackboard slate
5
watercolor
5
calligraphy (visual works)
4
exercise books (penmanship)
4
penmanship specimen book
4
artists' tool
3
drawing book
2
exercise book
2
ink drawing
2
map
2
alphabets (primers)
1
botanical illustration
1
children's art
1
engraving
1
graphite drawing
1
juvenilia
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landscape drawing
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lithograph
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Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
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Children -- Conduct of life.
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Drawing -- Study and teaching.
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Penmanship.
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Calligraphy -- Great Britain.
2
Copybooks -- Specimens.
2
Copybooks.
2
Education -- Great Britain.
2
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
2
Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
2
Thomas, Julia -- Autograph.
2
Alphabet -- Early works to 1800.
1
Art, Amateur -- Great Britain.
1
Autographs -- Specimens.
1
Bickham, G. -- Publisher.
1
Brook, Sarah Watson -- Autograph, 1774
1
Business -- Early works to 1800.
1
Butterflies.
1
Calligraphers -- Early works to 1800.
1
Calligraphers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Subject Period
19th century
3
17th century
1
18th century
1
Associated Places
Great Britain
7
Cumberland (England)
1
Dublin
1
Edinburgh
1
England
1
Frodsham
1
Glasgow
1
Kent (England)
1
London
1
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
1
Middlesex (England)
1
Scotland
1
Spain
1
Switzerland
1
Westmorland (England)
1
Yorkshire (England)
1
Associated People
De Britaine, William
1
Dilworth, Thomas, -1780
1
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
1
Gay, John, 1685–1732
1
Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
1
Goffin, Robert, 1816?-1889
1
Gurney, Emma, approximately 1800–1860
1
Jones, William
1
Milles, Mary Elizabeth, 1767–1818
1
Morphett, John
1
Palmer, Grace, -1890
1
Pease family
1
Pease, Edward Lloyd, 1861–1934
1
Pease, Edward, 1767–1858
1
Pease, Elizabeth Lucy, 1833–1881
1
Pease, Emma Gurney, approximately 1830–1895
1
Pease, Francis Richard, 1844–1865
1
Pease, Helen Blanch, 1865–1951
1
Pease, Henry, 1807–1881
1
Pease, Jane Gurney, 1827–1894
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Exhibition History
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ken Spelman Books
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
1
Language
English
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Penmanship in its utmost beauty and extent
1731
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Drawing and writing slate
[between 1850 and 1900]
3
Shepherd, Charles C
Shepherd's portable slate desk
[1877?]
4
Smith, Henry D
Ladies' running hand
[between 1841 and 1851]
5
Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797
Calligraphy exercise book
1797
6
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
7
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
A new set of round hand copies
[between 1836 and 1864]
8
Laurie's standard copy books
[1877]
9
Jones, William, writing master
Poikilographia, or, Various specimens of ornamental penmanship
[1830?]
10
Drawing and writing slate
[between 1850 and 1900]
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Drawing slates,
circa 1830
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The museum of arts
1745?]
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Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
Writing exercise books
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Campion, G
Introduction to ornamental writing
[1830?]
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Holmden, Richard, 1813–1890
Specimens of penmanship
Christmas, 1825
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Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
The origin and progress of letters
1763
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American standard writing spellers
1881
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The universal penman;
1743
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Morphett, John
John Morphett drawing and writing exercise book
1799
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The ornamental penman and arithmetical title writer
1825
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Watson, Mary Grace, 1786–1853
Manuscript copy of Richard Turner's A view of the earth : a short system of modern geography
1798
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Drawing slates,
1830s?
23
Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Vere Foster's new copy-books
[approximately 1890]
24
Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
Harper's new graded copy books of practical penmanship
1887
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Langton, John, active 1700–1727
A new copy-book of the small Italian hand
[1727?]