Late 1800s Prang's Drawing Models "Tablets" Set wooden stand with a platform to boot

with a platform to boot so one might arrange all sorts of other little things around as desire

8 1/16" long (plate) x 2 7/8" d x 1 1/2" w

Wonderfully primitive face and body

with a bit of paint loss as evident

and his exaggerated height

Late 1800s Prang's Drawing Models "Tablets" Set wooden stand with a platform to bootNo geometric solids in this late 19th c. Prang's "Drawing Models" box, but nearly all of the flat "tablets" or flat cardboard shape templates are present, plus original ruler, scissors and a few colored sticks, too. I think these are interesting to play around with and use in all sorts of ways as stencils but also as means of building patterns and compositions and just thinking visually. (Spreading them out and moving them around makes me at least