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- SARAH ADAMS Ink on Paper Alphabet Folk Art Drawing 1818
SARAH ADAMS Ink on Paper Alphabet Folk Art Drawing 1818
Ink alphabet drawing by Sarah Adams, 1818. From Eastern, PA. Possibly Mennonite.
Barely visible carefully ruled grid lines allow for the rendering the alphabet. This style of alphabet, used in teaching the marking of linen.
Early alphabets were copied from tradesman's manuals. "This [table of letters and numbers] is indispensably necessary and useful for the training up the younger sort of the female kind to the needle, it being introductory to all the various and sundry sorts of needlework pertaining to the sex. Therefore I have set down the alphabet in capitals, or great letters and small, likewise, the figures: that frills or young women, by often practice, may soon attain to perfection in marking on line." - from George Fisher's The Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion, London 1785
SIZE
8.25" x 9.25"
CONDITION
Period mounting to paper, with creases, tear, and bleeding. Period frame.