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<p>[QUOTE="Jivvy, post: 656344, member: 8184"]Per our earlier discussion of women taking up the art of cameo-cutting, I found this 1863 absolute gem of a book: <i><b><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8CUZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmgvmG2N_iAhVRmeAKHcvzA0g4ChDoAQhRMAg#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8CUZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmgvmG2N_iAhVRmeAKHcvzA0g4ChDoAQhRMAg#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">The Employments of Women</a></b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>It's a most interesting read. It mentions Margaret Foley -- I found Ms. Foley a few days ago via newspaper articles and was very excited to have <b><i>discovered</i></b> an accomplished and recognized female cameo cutter... then I found out that she already has her own <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Foley" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Foley" rel="nofollow">wikipedia page</a></b></i> and her work is at the Smithsonian, so she wasn't ever really in need of discovery. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Reportedly, she started whittling at a very young age and learned the "trade" of cameo cutting at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ednah_Dow_Littlehale_Cheney" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ednah_Dow_Littlehale_Cheney" rel="nofollow"><i><b>Ednah Dow Cheney's School of Design for Women</b></i></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here's one of her pieces:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]184683[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jivvy, post: 656344, member: 8184"]Per our earlier discussion of women taking up the art of cameo-cutting, I found this 1863 absolute gem of a book: [I][B][URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=8CUZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmgvmG2N_iAhVRmeAKHcvzA0g4ChDoAQhRMAg#v=onepage&q&f=false']The Employments of Women[/URL][/B][/I] It's a most interesting read. It mentions Margaret Foley -- I found Ms. Foley a few days ago via newspaper articles and was very excited to have [B][I]discovered[/I][/B] an accomplished and recognized female cameo cutter... then I found out that she already has her own [I][B][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Foley']wikipedia page[/URL][/B][/I] and her work is at the Smithsonian, so she wasn't ever really in need of discovery. :joyful: Reportedly, she started whittling at a very young age and learned the "trade" of cameo cutting at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ednah_Dow_Littlehale_Cheney'][I][B]Ednah Dow Cheney's School of Design for Women[/B][/I][/URL] Here's one of her pieces: [ATTACH=full]184683[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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