Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Learning to draw and write the pretty way. Imagery from the 1750 alphabet book “Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . .” Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller at Kingston upon Thames.
The ant: Diligence, frugality. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 16 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=17&view=1upThe crocodile: Dissimulation and infidelity, J. Hulott, sculp. Image 24 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=24&view=1upThe dog: vigilance and fidelity: J. Hulott, sculp. Image 28 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=28&view=1upThe eagle: honour and ambition. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 32 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=32&view=1upThe fox: hypocrisy and prophaness. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 36 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=36&view=1upThe grass hopper: indolence and inactivity. J. Hulott, sculp. Image 40 from Writing and drawing made easy, amusing and instructive : containing the whole alphabet in all the characters now us’d . . . 1750. English, printed in London. Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy bookseller, located at Kingston upon Thames. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Digitalized by the Internet Archive. In the public domain due to age. via https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7qn6h64w&seq=40&view=1up
Will be back to pick up more of the letters later.
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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