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WITH regard to young children drawing upside down, I have for some time past collected observations. It is certainly true, that a great many children do draw in this way; on the other hand, many from the first draw the right way up. I have seen a boy of four, when asked to draw a rook on a haystack, begin at the bottom of the paper with the rook's back, and gradually work his way up to the haystack; he then turned it round, and handed it to me to look at, evidently realising that it was inverted.
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SCOTT, R. Children's Drawings. Nature 53, 391 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053391b0
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