Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street Worcester, ca. 1795.

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Simpson, Miss. Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street Worcester, ca. 1795.

Miss Simpson at Mrs Linton's Boarding-school, Foregate Street Worcester, ca. 1795.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702182244

A sketchbook of drawings and designs demonstrating the range of art instruction given to young girls toward the end of the 18th century. 35 leaves, illustrated on rectos only. The first leaf bears title within a decorative frame border in pen and black ink. The remaining leaves bear either landscape scenes copied from drawing manuals in pen and black ink (some of these can be traced to specific manuals such as Laurie and Whittle's "Art of Landscape Drawing Made Easy") or watercolors of flowers and decorative patterns copied from other manuals. There is no evidence that any were done from life.

1 v. ([35] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.

Yale Center for British Art