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 Writing With Ink 

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Charles Pelham

by John Singleton Copley c. 1753 - 1754(Private Collection)

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Charles Pelham - Detail of Ink Well, Pen Knife, and Quill Pen

by John Singleton Copley c. 1753 - 1754(Private Collection)

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Benjamin Tompkins

by British School(Abington Town Council)

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Robert d'Arcy (1718–1778), 4th Earl of Holderness

by George Knapton 1752(Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums & Galleries)

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 Tobias Smollett

by Nathaniel Dance - Holland c. 1764(Yale Center for British Art)

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Dan Cunninghamby Mason Chamberlin 1766(Yale Center for British Art)

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Robert “King” Hooper

by John Singleton Copley 1767(Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

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Robert “King” Hooper - Detail of Ink Stand, Quill Pen, and Fabric Covered Desk

by John Singleton Copley 1767(Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

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 Attorney Samuel Quincy of Massachusetts, Trial of the Boston Massacre

by John Singleton Copley c. 1767(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Unknown

byTilly Kettle c. 1764 - 1769(Yale Center for British Art)

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Isaac Smith

by John Singleton Copley 1769(Yale University Art Gallery)

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Jeremiah Lee

by John Singleton Copley 1769(Wadsworth Athenaeum)

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David Garrick

by Robert Edge Pine(Royal Shakespeare Company Collection)

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Richard Fydell Jr.

by Robert Edge Pine(Fydell House)

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Loyalist Boston Merchant Miles Sherbrook

by John Singleton Copley 1771(Chrysler Museum of Art)

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 Town Clerk, Registrar of Deeds for Boston, Ezekiel Goldthwait

by John Singleton Copley 1771(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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John Simpson Of Bradley Hall Northumberlandby Sir Joshua Reynolds 1775

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Unknown Gentleman c. 1775

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Christopher Anstey with his daughter

by William Hoare c. 1776 - 1778(National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Loyalist Gilbert DuBois of Boston who Left for London in 1776

by John Singleton Copley c. Late 1770s(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Pens

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Shagreen Case of Quill PensLate 18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Shagreen Case of Quill PensLate 18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Shagreen Case of Quill PensLate 18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Shagreen Case of Quill PensLate 18th Century

(Private Collection)

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 A Gentleman at His Table (Recreated)

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Penners&  

 Writing Sets

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Horn Penner18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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Horn Penner18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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Brass English Penner 5 5/8” ClosedMarked “JESSOP”

 Virtually Identical to one by John Mycock of She!eldc. Late 18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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Brass English Penner 5 5/8” ClosedIdentical to One by John Mycock of She!eld

c. Late 18th Century(John C. Loring Collection)

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Leather Writing SetLate 18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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Lacquered English Penner 5 1/4”Late 18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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 Varnished Wood English Pennere

Late 18th Century 

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Leather Writing Set18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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English Penner of Leather with Wax Seal CompartmentLate 18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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English Penner of Leather 4 7/8”

Late 18th Century(John C. Loring Collection)

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French Gold Nib / Penner of Ivory & SilverLate 18th Century

(John C. Loring Collection)

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Brass Traveling Writing SetLate 18th Century - Generally Thought to Post Date the American War for Independence

(George Neuman Collection, Valley Forge National Historical Park)

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French Black Rayskin and Silver Etui Necessaire

18th Century(The Highboy)

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French Black Rayskin and Silver Etui Necessaire

18th Century(The Highboy)

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French Black Rayskin and Silver Etui Necessaire

18th Century(The Highboy)

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Ink 

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Ink Peddler

by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de Caylus after Edme Bouchardon 1746(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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 The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life / Fine Writing Ink

after Marcellus Laroon II(The British Museum)

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Ink Wells

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 “A JACK IN OFFICE” A Custom O!cer Published by Bowles & Carver, after Robert Dighton c. 1766 - 1790

(The British Museum)

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 American Glass Inkwell

18th Century 

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 American Pattern Molded InkwellProbably from the New Bremen Glass Manufactory of Frederick, Maryland c. 1765 - 1795

Possibly made at Stiegel’s Manheim, Pa., Glass Works, c. 1768, or New Geneva(Historical Glass.com)

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 American Travel InkwellPossibly by the Wistarberg Glass Works of Alloway, New Jersey c. 1760 - 1770

Possibly Heston Glass Works of Glassboro, New Jersey c. 1783 - 1800(HistoricalGlass.com)

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Pewter Inkwell18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Lead Inkwell18th Century

(Guilford Courthouse National Military Park)

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Pewter Inkwell & Sander Tray Marked “CL FEIN ZIN”18th Century

(Morristown National Historic Park)

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 Writing Box and Ink WellsRecovered from the Wreck of the General Carleton which Sank in 1785

(Polish Maritime Museum in Gda "

sku)

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 American Stoneware Inkstandby William Crolius of New York, New York 1773

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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 American Stoneware Inkstandby William Crolius of New York, New York 1773

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Glazed Earhenware Inkwell & Sander18th Century

(Parks Canada, Québec)

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British O!cer’s Traveling Writing Box18th Century

(Bonhams - William H. Guthman Collection)

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 Traveling Writing Box18th Century

(Bonhams - William H. Guthman Collection)

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English Traveling Writing Set in Shagreen Casec. 1760

(Woolley & Wallis)

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Pounce Pots

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English Fruitwood Pounce Potc. 1720

(Christie’s Auction House)

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English Lignum Vitae Pounce Potc. 1750

(Christie’s Auction House)

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 Wax Seals

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George II Silver Signet & Wax Holder18th Century

(Private Collection)

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Pen Knives

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English Steel & Horn Pen Knives from She!eld Marked “RODGERS”by Joseph & Maurice Rodgers c. 1770

(Museums She!eld - Weston Park Museum)

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English Steel & Horn Pen Knives from She!eld Marked “RODGERS”by Joseph & Maurice Rodgers c. 1770

(Museums She!eld - Weston Park Museum)

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English Steel & Horn Pen Knives from She!eld Marked “RODGERS”by Joseph & Maurice Rodgers c. 1770

(Museums She!eld - Weston Park Museum)

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English Steel, Silver, & Horn Pen Knives from She!eld Marked “RODGERS”by Joseph & Maurice Rodgers c. 1770

(Museums She!eld)

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English Steel & Ivory Pen Knife from She!eld Marked “RODGERS”by Joseph & Maurice Rodgers c. 1775 - 1779

(Museums She!eld)

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English Steel, Brass & Horn Pen Knifeby Enoch Drabble c. 1770 - 1790

(Museums She!eld)

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Steel & Tortoise Shell Pen Knife18th Century

(Guilford Courthouse National Military Park)

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 Trade Cards

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 Trade Card18th Century

(Lewis Walpole Library)

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PencilsPorte-Crayons

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Pencil Recovered from the British Merchant Ship Ronson (“Princess Caroline” Recovered in Manhattan, New York  Marked with a 6” Ruler and “JONES” c. 1717

(The Mariner’s Museum & Park)

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Pencil Recovered from the British Merchant Ship Ronson (“Princess Caroline” Recovered in Manhattan, New York  Marked with a 6” Ruler and “JONES” c. 1717

(The Mariner’s Museum & Park)

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English Pencil Holder / Porte-Crayon18th Century

(Fleaglass.com)

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French Pencil Holder / Porte-CrayonLate 18th Century

(Fleaglass.com)

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Pencil Holder / Porte-Crayon & “Leads”18th Century

(Loringpage.com)

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 “Dessein” The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert 1763

(University of Michigan)

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 “Dessein” The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert 1763

(University of Michigan)

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 Attributes of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture by Anne Vallayer-Coster 1769

(Louvre)

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 Attributes of the Painterby Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Mid 18th Century

(Public Domain)

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 Trompe-l’oeilby Dominique Doncre 1785

(Musée des Beaux-Arts)

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"Self Portrait with a Portrait of Her Sister”by Rosalba Carriera 1709

(Public Domain)

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 Young Man Sharpening a Pencil by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin 1737

(Public Domain)

http://www.allposters.com/-st/Jean-Baptiste-Simeon-Chardin-Posters_c62106_.htm

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 “The happy Youth…”by John Faber, After Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin 1740

(National Portrait Gallery)

http://www.allposters.com/-st/Jean-Baptiste-Simeon-Chardin-Posters_c62106_.htm

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 Archduchess Mimi (Maria Christina von Österreich)by Martin van Meytens 1750

(Public Domain)

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Sir John Cotton, 6th Bt.by Petrus Johannes Van Reyschoot Pre- 1752

(Public Domain)

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Self Portraitby Claude Arnulphy 1750

(Public Domain)

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Students Drawingby Philippe Mercier c. 1750

(Sotheby’s)

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Bildnis Johann Ludwig Aberliby Jakob Emanuel Handmann 1751

(Kunstmuseum Winterthur)

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 Tadeusz Kuntzeby Jean Restout 1756

(onlyartists.com)

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 A Boy Drawingby Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735 –  1784)

(Private Collection)

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 A Boy Drawingby Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735 –  1784)

(Private Collection)

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 Thomas Fryeafter Thomas Frye 1760

(Colonial Williamsburg)

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 A Lady Sketchingby Jacques-André Portail

(Public Domain)

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Self-Portraitby Johann Anton Tischbein 1760

(Museum Hessen Kessel)

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Self Portraitby Nathaniel Hone c. 1760

(National Portrait Gallery)

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Portrait of His Son Sketchingby Nathaniel Hone c. 1769

(Ulster Museum)

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Portrait of an Unknown Artist or Gentlemanc. 1760

(Sothebys)

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Unknown Gentleman Using a Porte-Crayon and His Wife Winding WoolMid 18th Century

(National Trust, Upton House)

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Self Portraitby Johann Zo$ any 1761

(National Portrait Gallery)

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Self Portraitby Johann Zo$ any 1761

(National Portrait Gallery)

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Paul Sandbyby Francis Cotes c. 1761

(Tate Gallery, London)

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Portrait of the Artist's Daughtersby Thomas Gainsborough c. 1763 - 1764

(Worcester Art Gallery)

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Portrait of the Artist's Daughtersby Thomas Gainsborough c. 1763 - 1764

(Worcester Art Gallery)

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CORNELIS VAN DEN BERGc. 1764

(The British Museum)

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Charles-André van Loo, First Painter to Louis XVby by Louis-Michel van Loo 1764

(Public Domain)

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Carle Van Loo and His Familyby Louis-Michel van Loo Mid 18th Century

(Public Domain)

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 Angelica Kau$ mannby Nathaniel Dance c. 1764 - 1766

(National Galleries of Scotland)

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Self Portrait by Candlelightby Jens Juel c. 1764

(Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)

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John Greyby Benjamin West 1766

(Public Domain)

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John Greyby Benjamin West 1766

(Public Domain)

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Unknown Sitterby G. Maeret 1773

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"The Artist and His Son Raphael”by Benjamin West c. 1773

(Yale Center for British Art.)

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Self Portraitby James Je$ erys c. 1775

(National Portrait Gallery)

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George Robertsonby John Francis Rigaus (Active in Britain from 1771) 1776

(Yale Center for British Art)

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Mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplaceby Johann Ernst Heinsius c. 1775

(Public Domain)

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 Anne Forbesby David Allan 1781

(National Gallery, Scotland)

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Self Portraitby Marie-Gabrielle Capet c. 1783

(Musée national de l'art occidental)

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Portret van Jacob de Vos I en de schilder Wybrand Hendriksby Wybrand Hendriks 1783

(Rijksmusem)

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Portret van Jacob de Vos I en de schilder Wybrand Hendriksby Wybrand Hendriks 1783

(Rijksmusem)

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Self Portraitby Angelica Kau$ man c. 1784

(Neue Pinakothek)

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 Angelica Kau$ manby Nathaniel Dance Holland c. 1764

(Public Domain)

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Jean-Henri Riesenerby Antoine Vestier c. 1785

(Chateau Versailles)

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"Portrait of Two Boys"by Joseph Boze

(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Self Portraitby Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein Late 18th Century

(Public Domain)

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Colonel William Taylorby Ralph Earl c. 1790

(Public Domain)

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Lady Elizabeth Harcourtby Paul Sandby

(The Royal Collection)

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 A Young Lady WritingPaul Sandby

(The Royal Collection)

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 A Lady Copying at a Drawing TablePaul Sandby c. 1765

(Yale Center for British Art)

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Portrait of a Young Lady at a Drawing TablePaul Sandby

(Public Domain)

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SlatePencils

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Stencils

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Box Set of Stencils Owned by Benjamin Franklin1781 - 1782

(American Philosophical Society)

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Paper 

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Marbled Paper18th Century 

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Marbled Paper18th Century 

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 Writing Pads

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English Memo Pad of Ivory & Silverc. 1730 - 1790(Winterthur)

 Acknowledgements

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