Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! woman ice skating as it's really all about

as it's really all about the silhouette

fairly thick walled and heavy for its size

starting with what I find to be the striking beauty and evocativeness of the image

There's no mark on it

otherwise assorted paint loss here and there

Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! woman ice skating as it's really all aboutAnother really nice penmanship practice notebook, this one dated 1863 and done by Frederic Fisher, the brother I assume of Henry Fisher, whose notebook I just listed. I really like the somewhat looser handwriting in this one, done according to the Becker rather than Spencerian method, and which includes word repetition, including the names of lots of cities and countries, as well as sentences: Quarrelsome boys are troublesome; Command of hand gives