The Art of Writing

Letter-writing was an everyday chore. Travel, meetings, orders and other practical matters were nearly always arranged in writing. Many letters from around 1900 resemble today's e-...

Lucy de Vere was the founder and first prioress of the Benedictine nunnery of Hedingam in Essex. When she died, probably around 1225 her successor, Agnes, sent this roll -- now ove...

Letters 1909-06-20 from Ester Bauer to John Bauer, consisting of twelve pages written on the front and back of three folded sheets of paper. Main writing handwritten in black ink. ...

A man sits at a long ornate green table, writing on a white scroll with a paintbrush. He wears a plum/brown robe with a dragon design in gold and white. He wears a string of pearls...

A table of this format –with a single row of drawers and a leather writing surface –was the preferred writing desk for a gentleman in 18th-century Paris. Its curving form and fanci...

Black costume with lying down, white collar. Dark background with painted, oval framing. Signed on the back of the canvas, later painted older writing: “Beck pinx.” Later impoveris...