A mid-Victorian lady's perspective and artistic composition ...

Hammer

£200

A mid-Victorian lady's perspective and artistic composition book, entitled: III Course of Drawing, illustrated and compiled by Mary M.P. Hale, Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, St. Leonards-on-Sea, [East Sussex], dated 1865, subdivided into four parts with separate title-pages: Perspective, Model, Freehand and Trees, and illustrated with approx. 70 full-page geometry sections - with annotated explanatory leaves - and pictures of models & shapes, furniture & objects, architectural & decorative ornaments, and nature & the natural world, executed in black and red pen and ink, and pencil, contemporary maroon quarter-calf over drab cloth, gilt banded spine, yellow endpapers, oblong 4to (23.5cm x 30cm), [1]