Lessons in Figure Painting in Water Colours

Jennie Moore|Cassell, Petter and Galpin|Blanche F. MacArthur

1880 · Illustrations: color lithographs with hand-coloring · Drawings and Prints

The two women artists who wrote and illustrated this manual regularly exhibited at London’s Royal Academy. The text advises using a soft pencil to establish proportions, then using a finer point, and finally introducing layers of watercolors. Suggested colors are noted opposite progressive images, with the figure shown here partly finished.

Artist

Jennie Moore|Cassell, Petter and Galpin|Blanche F. MacArthur

Date

1880

Medium

Illustrations: color lithographs with hand-coloring

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962