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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
3
Campion, G
1
Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
1
Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
1
Holmden, Richard, 1813–1890
1
Jones, William, writing master
1
Langton, John, active 1700–1727
1
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
1
Morphett, John
1
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
1
Watson, Mary Grace, 1786–1853
1
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1727
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1890
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
23
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
22
Free to Use
1
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Unavailable
22
Available
1
Classification
Books
13
Archives & Manuscripts
6
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
3
Articles & Chapters
1
Creator Gender
unknown
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Period
19th century
15
18th century
8
20th century
1
Work Type
writing book
15
copy books (penmanship)
9
watercolor
5
calligraphy (visual works)
4
penmanship specimen book
4
artists' tool
3
blackboard slate
3
drawing book
2
exercise book
2
exercise books (penmanship)
2
ink drawing
2
map
2
alphabets (primers)
1
botanical illustration
1
children's art
1
engraving
1
graphite drawing
1
juvenilia
1
landscape drawing
1
lithograph
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Penmanship -- Study and teaching.
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Children -- Conduct of life.
3
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
3
Penmanship.
3
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
1
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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)
2
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
1
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Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
Penmanship in its utmost beauty and extent
1731
2
Drawing and writing slate
[between 1850 and 1900]
3
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
4
Smith, Henry D
Ladies' running hand
[between 1841 and 1851]
5
Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797
Calligraphy exercise book
1797
6
Shepherd, Charles C
Shepherd's portable slate desk
[1877?]
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
The ornamental penman and arithmetical title writer
1825
11
Drawing and writing slate
[between 1850 and 1900]
12
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The universal penman;
1743
13
Holmden, Richard, 1813–1890
Specimens of penmanship
Christmas, 1825
14
Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
Writing exercise books
15
Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Vere Foster's new copy-books
[approximately 1890]
16
American standard writing spellers
1881
17
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
The origin and progress of letters
1763
18
Campion, G
Introduction to ornamental writing
[1830?]
19
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The museum of arts
1745?]
20
Watson, Mary Grace, 1786–1853
Manuscript copy of Richard Turner's A view of the earth : a short system of modern geography
1798
21
Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
Harper's new graded copy books of practical penmanship
1887
22
Morphett, John
John Morphett drawing and writing exercise book
1799
23
Langton, John, active 1700–1727
A new copy-book of the small Italian hand
[1727?]