Vere Foster's drawing book : embracing every description of drawing, with paper for copying.
Vere Foster (1819-1900)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1890
Materials
Place of origin
Dublin
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3231588
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition. v. : chiefly ill. ; 18 x 22 cm. Holdings: O7: Dogs / by Harrison Weir. Several engravings coloured in ; first of greyhound copied in pencil Loose inserts: leaf with rough pencil drawings with captions (estate characters, family, pets); 'Hugo's 1910 self-tutition course' advertisement booklet (8p. ; 17cm); folded engraved leaf with horse diagram, headed 'Major Faudel-Phillips' system' with quiz to identify points of the horse. Provenance: drawing coloured in have been initialled "FHC" [i.e. Frances Caroline Julia Jenney, née Harpur Crewe (1887-1960)]. Binding: publisher's printed, buff paper wrappers.
Makers and roles
Vere Foster (1819-1900) Harrison William Weir (Lewes 1824 - Devon 1906)