The Psychology of Children's Drawings the Drawing of a Child from the First Stroke to Coloured Drawings Made at Eight Years of Age

Since the Italian historian C. Ricci ¹ published, in the year 1887, his famous pamphlet on the art of children, a number of works have appeared which have made known to us the main characteristics of the free drawings of children. In order to enlarge and deepen this knowledge, particularly in the psychological direction, it is necessary, as many psychologists have pointed out, to make exact and complete observations of the development of the drawings of a single child. The following study is a contribution in this direction and concerns the drawing of a child from the first to the eighth year.