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Visual Materials
One drawing book entitled The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction, No. 9, Seventh Year, First Half, by John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry, published by The Prang Educational Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, copyright 1898. Sixteen pages in length, this book is comprised of a wide variety of lithograph and photograph illustrations intended for study and copying. Some pages include space for copying of images. The front cover is framed by a decorative floral border. The insides of the front and back covers are blank. The back cover is a publisher's advertisement for "The Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction", and discusses the philosophy and use of the course. As stated in this advertisement, the "three general subjects of Art, - Representation, Decoration and Construction,- are included in the scope of this Course." The focus of this Book 9 is on construction and its relation to composition. Some of the drawings, paintings, and images included in this volume are: "The First Step" by Millet; images of various trees; Shakespeare's house; Roman ornament and decoration and various Roman buildings. All of the exercises have been completed either in pencil or in pen and ink. Two additional original pieces of artwork have been mounted in: one is a pencil sketch of a basket of apples, the other is a pencil and watercolor work of a basket of fruit, with "Varney School" and "Harold C. Brown" written in ms. at the top. "Harold C. Brown" is written in ms., in ink, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.
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