Lessons in figure painting in water colours
An instructional manual on watercolour figure painting by Blanche Macarthur and Jennie Moore, issued by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co in London and New York in 1881 for amateur painters. Chromolithographed plates show half-length and full-length studies of young women in peasant dress — linen caps, laced bodices, shawls, baskets — against flat green and brown grounds useful for isolated figures and muted colour pairings.
