Antique Prang's Model and Object Drawing Lesson's Sketchbook, Largely Completed glass timer made of cotton I believe

made of cotton I believe

13" x 10 " with old masking tape adhered to the back around the edges

Unused back with scatted stains

upon seeing a selection of them in Documenta 13

with great patina and many times better in person

Antique Prang's Model and Object Drawing Lesson's Sketchbook, Largely Completed glass timer made of cotton I believeOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one a "Model and Object Drawing No. 2" notebook published by L. Prang and Company (perhaps best known as a maker of geometric solid blocks) in 1875. Drawing lessons throughout, with top and left hand of the pages printed, and right hand left empty for the student to complete the drawing lesson. Happily, George completed the majority of the lessons, in graphite, very