A rare survival from the eighteenth century, this school exercise book contains numerous pages of mathematical figures as well as a number of word problems that require more complex reasoning skills. While the binding (using a wallpaper fragment) and the handwriting suggest a North American provenance, there is some internal evidence referring to British subjects.
Subject (Name):
Newhall, Isaac
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic --Problems, exercises, etc. and Arithmetic --Study and teaching
"Portrait, half length, to the right, looking at viewer; wearing embroidered doublet, cloak over left shoulder, and ruff, with moustache and short curled hair, one hand on hip; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared., Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [i.e. 1780]., "Vol. 1, p. 152"--Upper right corner., Engraved after a self-portrait miniature by Oliver that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 136 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 17.3 x 13.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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