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| {{:scan_20241201_10_.jpg?300|}} {{:scan_20241201_11_.jpg?300|}} {{:scan_20241201_12_.jpg?300|}} {{:scan_20241201_13_.jpg?300|}}{{:scan_20241201_14_.jpg?300|}} These beautifully precise and colourful paintings which took huge patience are typical of botanical illustrations at which women of this era excelled. Are they by Eliza Skynner? Sadly 19th century concepts of feminine modesty meant that women frequently did not sign or initial their works.\\ | {{:scan_20241201_10_.jpg?300|}} {{:scan_20241201_11_.jpg?300|}} {{:scan_20241201_12_.jpg?300|}} {{:scan_20241201_13_.jpg?300|}}{{:scan_20241201_14_.jpg?300|}} These beautifully precise and colourful paintings which took huge patience are typical of botanical illustrations at which women of this era excelled. Are they by Eliza Skynner? Sadly 19th century concepts of feminine modesty meant that women frequently did not sign or initial their works.\\ |
| {{:scan_20241201_15_.jpg?300|}}{{:scan_20241201_16_.jpg?300|}} Is this scene and another flower painting also Eliza Skynner's?\\ | {{:scan_20241201_15_.jpg?300|}}{{:scan_20241201_16_.jpg?300|}} Is this scene and another flower painting also Eliza Skynner's?\\ |
| \\ The family had two larger unsigned paintings of flowers - sadly somewhat marked - but in a similar style as the flower paintings in this album. See [[eliza_skynner|Eliza Prior, nee Skynner]] | \\ The family had two larger unsigned paintings of flowers - sadly somewhat marked - but in a similar style as the flower paintings in this album. See [[eliza_skynner|Eliza Prior, nee Skynner]]\\ |
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| There is another blank page (indicating change in artist?), then this delicate scene drawn on cardboard {{:scan_20241201_17_.jpg?300|}} and signed T.S. Cooper and possibly a date: presumably Thomas Sidney Cooper, William's art teacher and talented landscape artist. \\ | There is another blank page (indicating change in artist?), then this delicate scene drawn on cardboard {{:scan_20241201_17_.jpg?300|}} and signed T.S. Cooper and possibly a date: presumably Thomas Sidney Cooper, William's art teacher and talented landscape artist. \\ |
| Then there are pages of miscellaneous art. {{:scan_20241201_18_.jpg?300|}} A cartoon by BB Ashford and then an original sketch of man and boy fishing; {{:scan_20241201_19_cropped.jpg?200|}} A copy (with different colours) of a drawing by Marianne Postans in her //Cutch; or, random sketches, taken during a residence in one of the northern provinces of Western India; interspersed with legends and traditions//, 1839; and, on the last page of this section, a sketch possibly by William in Europe.{{:scan_20241201_20_.jpg?300|}}\\ | Then there are pages of miscellaneous art. {{:scan_20241201_18_.jpg?300|}} A cartoon by BB Ashford and then an original sketch of man and boy fishing; {{:scan_20241201_19_cropped.jpg?200|}} A copy (with different colours) of a drawing by Marianne Postans in her //Cutch; or, random sketches, taken during a residence in one of the northern provinces of Western India; interspersed with legends and traditions//, 1839; and, on the last page of this section, a sketch possibly by William in Europe.{{:scan_20241201_20_.jpg?300|}}\\ |