Manuscripts
[Trotter, Thomas?]. Portrait of Samuel Johnson [pencil sketch, possibly rubbed from a plate]. Drawing, 1 page 15 x 10 cm
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[Reynolds, Sir Joshua]. Portrait of Samuel Johnson [pencil sketch, possibly for an engraving]
Manuscripts
Copy (drawing), 1 page; oval 10 x 7.5 cm. Reference to print: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1910), vol. II, p. 649, #16.
HM 40961
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, and others [unfinished pencil, ink and wash sketch, possibly for an engraving]
Manuscripts
Drawing, 1 page; 18 x 21.5 cm. Verso has unfinished drawing of man's body dressed in robe, lacking head.
HM 40960
The Eldorado Page, Sketching with "the master drawing pencil"
Visual Materials
Six advertisements entitled The Eldorado Page, Sketching with "the master drawing pencil," published by Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, ca. 1920-1940. These 6 sheets are promotional advertisements for Dixon pencils and feature aspects of pencil-drawing technique. Sheet No. 1 is "Area Technique"; No. 2 is "A Discussion of the Center of the Sketch"; No. 3 is "Notation of Procedure"; No. 4 is "Exercises"; No. 5 is "How to Sketch Evergreen Foliage"; and No. 6 is "The White Door". All of the illustrations and instructional text are by Ernest W. Watson, who was an instructor at the Pratt Institute. The six pages were originally published in various issues of an unnamed magazine.
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Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., letter to David Trotter Patterson
Manuscripts
Autograph letter signed. Regarding the annexation of Texas and relations with Mexico; the state of the Democratic Party and the 1844 presidential race; and several politicians including Martin Van Buren, Lewis Cass, John Tyler, Henry Clay, Thomas Hart Benton, James K. Polk, and others. Letter also mentions a recent tariff bill defeat. (5 pages)
HM 8201
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Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., letter to David Trotter Patterson, Greeneville, Tennessee
Manuscripts
Autograph letter signed, with addressed envelope and franking signature. Regarding a cadet appointment for Reuben Arnold, emigration to California, and the editorship of the Greeneville "Spy" and its future. (4 pages)
HM 8202
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Johnson, Samuel. Letter to Samuel Richardson
Manuscripts
Autograph letter signed, 3 pages. Transcribed in Bruce Redford, ed. The Letters of Samuel Johnson (Princeton University Press, 1992), vol. 1: p. 74-75.
HM 20821