An Introduction to Linear Drawing

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An Introduction to Linear Drawing is considered the first documented book to teach art in American public schools. It was published in 1825 and is a translation and revision (while teaching at the Female Monitorial School) by William Bentley Fowle based on the original French work by M. Louis Francoeur .

Web links

Wikisource: en: An_introduction_to_linear_drawing  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.personal.psu.edu/mas53/timln820.html
  2. ↑ http://art.unt.edu/ntieva/HistoryofArtEd/1821-documents.html