Antique Prang's Model and Object Drawing Lesson's Sketchbook, Largely Completed left It seems as though the

It seems as though the wood was quite deliberately chosen

with leaves and flowers in the corners

this is a mid 19th c

and from what I can tell

with some of the red paint still holding on to the minute hand

Antique Prang's Model and Object Drawing Lesson's Sketchbook, Largely Completed left It seems as though theOne 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