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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
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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
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Classification
Books
12
Archives & Manuscripts
6
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
5
Articles & Chapters
1
Creator Gender
unknown
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Period
19th century
17
18th century
7
20th century
1
Work Type
writing book
14
copy books (penmanship)
8
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
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
Brook, Sarah Watson -- Autograph, 1774
1
Business -- Early works to 1800.
1
Butterflies.
1
Calligraphers -- Early works to 1800.
1
Calligraphers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
1
Calligraphy -- Early works to 1800.
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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, 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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Rowe, Richard, fl. 1797
Calligraphy exercise book
1797
4
Reynolds, I. (Writer on handwriting)
A new set of round hand copies
[between 1836 and 1864]
5
Smith, Henry D
Ladies' running hand
[between 1841 and 1851]
6
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
7
Holmden, Richard, 1813–1890
Specimens of penmanship
Christmas, 1825
8
Drawing slates,
circa 1830
9
Laurie's standard copy books
[1877]
10
Drawing and writing slate
[between 1850 and 1900]
11
Goffin, Alfred, 1819?-1898
Writing exercise books
12
The ornamental penman and arithmetical title writer
1825
13
Shaylor, H. W. (Horace Woodbury), 1845–1925
Harper's new graded copy books of practical penmanship
1887
14
Morphett, John
John Morphett drawing and writing exercise book
1799
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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]
18
Watson, Mary Grace, 1786–1853
Manuscript copy of Richard Turner's A view of the earth : a short system of modern geography
1798
19
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The universal penman;
1743
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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?]
22
Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
The museum of arts
1745?]
23
Massey, W. (William), 1691–1764?
The origin and progress of letters
1763
24
Langton, John, active 1700–1727
A new copy-book of the small Italian hand
[1727?]