Alice Munsell

Alice Munsell (Muntell)

 Note: December 2023 and 4 years after publication of this post part of the puzzle, the name of the artist (Munsell not Muntell) was solved with the help of a reader. 

Not her identity. She could be related to American painter, art educator and colour theorist 

Albert Henry Munsell (1858-1918).  She is not one of his 4 daughters.  

This small (12 x 15 cm.) lithographically printed red pencil or red chalk drawing of a reading women in Victorian dress, comfortably propped up by several pillows, was recently found as local car boot loot. No TV, no cell phone, no "social media" (I fail to understand the meaning of the word" social" in this context, creating obviously rather anti-social behaviour in recent generations). 

It was printed on older (19. century) paper (with a regular grid visible) and in the margin someone scribbled a name. A nice drawing, and a nice puzzle.   

All help to identify the (supposedly) artist (the name mentioned could of course also refer to the sitter), would be very welcomed. 

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Post Script 

Dec. 2023: The drawing was published as an illustration in 1900 in "the Dome" which existed for only 3 years (1897-1900) with another drawing by Alice's hand. Who wrote her name on my lithographically printed copy is unknown.