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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Campion, G
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Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
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Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
1
Holmden, Richard, 1813–1890
1
Jones, William, writing master
1
Pease family
1
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
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Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
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Shepherd, Charles C
1
Smith, Henry D
1
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1890
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Classification
Books
8
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Archives & Manuscripts
3
Articles & Chapters
1
Creator Gender
unknown
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Period
19th century
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20th century
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writing book
8
copy books (penmanship)
6
blackboard slate
5
artists' tool
3
exercise books (penmanship)
3
watercolor
3
calligraphy (visual works)
2
drawing book
2
penmanship specimen book
2
alphabets (primers)
1
botanical illustration
1
children's art
1
exercise book
1
graphite drawing
1
ink drawing
1
juvenilia
1
landscape drawing
1
lithograph
1
manuscript map
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map
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Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
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Drawing -- Study and teaching.
3
Penmanship.
3
Calligraphy -- Great Britain.
2
Children -- Conduct of life.
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
Art, Amateur -- Great Britain.
1
Autographs -- Specimens.
1
Butterflies.
1
Calligraphy.
1
Conduct of life.
1
Crowther, G.H. -- Publisher.
1
Cumberland (England) -- Maps.
1
Darton, William and Son -- Publisher.
1
Drawing -- Technique.
1
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19th century
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Great Britain
5
Cumberland (England)
1
Dublin
1
Edinburgh
1
Frodsham
1
Glasgow
1
Kent (England)
1
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
1
Middlesex (England)
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Scotland
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Spain
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Switzerland
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Westmorland (England)
1
Yorkshire (England)
1
Associated People
Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
1
Goffin, Robert, 1816?-1889
1
Gurney, Emma, approximately 1800–1860
1
Jones, William
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
1
Pease, John Henry, 1836–1854
1
Pease, Mary Cecelia, 1892–1975
1
Pease, Mary W
1
Pease, Rachel, 1831–1912
1
Pease, Sarah Charlotte, 1858–1929
1
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830–1905
1
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
1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
1
Language
English
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Drawing and writing slate
[between 1850 and 1900]
2
Shepherd, Charles C
Shepherd's portable slate desk
[1877?]
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Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
A new set of round hand copies
[between 1836 and 1864]
4
Smith, Henry D
Ladies' running hand
[between 1841 and 1851]
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Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
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Holmden, Richard, 1813–1890
Specimens of penmanship
Christmas, 1825
7
Drawing slates,
circa 1830
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Laurie's standard copy books
[1877]
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Drawing and writing slate
[between 1850 and 1900]
10
Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
Writing exercise books
11
The ornamental penman and arithmetical title writer
1825
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Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
Harper's new graded copy books of practical penmanship
1887
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American standard writing spellers
1881
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Drawing slates,
1830s?
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Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Vere Foster's new copy-books
[approximately 1890]
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Jones, William, writing master
Poikilographia, or, Various specimens of ornamental penmanship
[1830?]
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Campion, G
Introduction to ornamental writing
[1830?]