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Drawing Book of Trees: Exhibiting the Whole Process of Sketching and Shading the Different Kinds of Foliage in the Most Familiar Manner

Author Written and illustrated by Benjamin H. Coe American
Publisher E. B. & E. C. Kellogg American
1841
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  • Title: Drawing Book of Trees: Exhibiting the Whole Process of Sketching and Shading the Different Kinds of Foliage in the Most Familiar Manner
  • Author: Written and illustrated by Benjamin H. Coe (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1799–1883)
  • Publisher: E. B. & E. C. Kellogg (American, active Hartford, Connecticut 1840–67)
  • Published in: Hartford
  • Date: 1841
  • Medium: Illustrations: lithographs
  • Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 9 1/8 in. (17.1 x 23.2 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
  • Object Number: 54.509.11
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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