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The gallery of pictures painted by Benjamin West

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    Benjamin West papers

    Manuscripts

    Includes letters, diaires, sermon.

    mssHM 43147-43175

  • Home Painting Gallery

    Home Painting Gallery

    Visual Materials

    One painting book entitled Home Painting Gallery, by F.I. Wetherbee, published by M.A. Donohue & Co., Chicago, copyright 1908. This painting book is comprised of chromolithograph images, black and white images for coloring, and blank pages for drawing. Descriptive and instructional text accompanies each image. The front cover is a chromolithograph collage of images which include a lace-covered table, a horse, a seated woman, and a boy writing in a chair. The back cover is blank. The images and exercises within this book range from very simple (drawing straight lines) to more complex coloring and shading. Many of the lithograph images have been colored in. "21-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page. "Annie McInley" is written in ms., in pencil, opposite the title page.

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  • Juvenile Painting Gallery

    Juvenile Painting Gallery

    Visual Materials

    One painting book entitled Juvenile Painting Gallery, by F. I. Wetherbee, published by M.A. Donohue & Co., Chicago, copyright 1908. The subtitle on the title page reads: "Being a collection of the most artistic color schemes ever produced in an instructive painting book, teaching accuracy, harmony, beauty and color with pencil, paint and brush. Complete instructions for the little artist." This painting book is comprised of chromolithographic plates and black and white outline drawings for coloring. Descriptive, instructive and playful text accompanies each image. The lessons progress from fundamental to more complex, and include lessons on form, perspective, shape, proportion and shading. All of the images in this book are the same as those in Box 37 Env. 04. The front cover of this book is a chromolithograph of a boy at an easel outdoors painting a picture of a girl. The back cover is blank.

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    Prints of paintings in the Vernon Gallery

    Visual Materials

    This collection contains three prints of paintings in the Vernon Gallery: The Age of Innocence by Sir Joshua Renyolds, The Woodland Gate by William Collins, and The Scanty Meal by J.F. Herring.

    priPEF 59

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    Pictures at play, or, Dialogues of the galleries

    Rare Books

    136485