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["The new Juvenile Drawing Book"]

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"The new Juvenile Drawing Book"; by Henry Egbert, jr.,1 with numerous illustrations on stone, (from T. D. Smith’s bookstore, 202 Fulton street, Brooklyn,) appears to us an unusually fit work to place in the hands of youth learning to draw. We have noticed in several of the public schools of this city, that drawing is among the studies pursued; and we specially recommend to those schools the use of this little work.2


Notes:

1. Henry Egbert, Jr., (1826–1900), was an illustrator who compiled several drawing books while employed by Harper & Brothers. [back]

2. Many drawing books of the period were part of a larger democratic effort to cultivate the taste of the masses. For efforts to promote drawing in the schools see especially Peter C. Marzio, The Art Crusade: An Analysis of American Drawing Manuals, 1820–1860 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976), 59–62. [back]

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