Jeremiah Draper's Book
date: label: Date
content: 1800
name: label: Calligrapher
content: Jeremiah Draper, American, active 1800s
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Small handmade booklet used by the author for practicing penmanship exercises. Multiple sheets are inscribed with the author's name in cursive script followed by the date 1800. Book cover is made from a sidewall fragment dating to ca. 1790s. The cover design consists of two horizontal registers of running leaves and small floral motifs separated by a band of small, rectangular-shaped forest-green checkerboards. The upper register of leaves is highlighted with white and black flowers. The lower register is composed entirely of small black and white flowers on vines.
place: label: made in
content: Europe and USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thomas Strahan Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1976-48-61-2
objectType: label: Type
content: ephemera
label: Object Name
content: Manuscript
label: Type
content: Manuscript
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 23.2 x 35.5 cm (9 1/8 in. x 14 in.), irregular