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Title: Industry. Flee Sloth, the canker of good men and parts
Alternative Title: Part of: Dean's analytical guide, to the art of penmanship.
Creator: Maverick, Peter, 1780-1831, artist
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1808
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a page of calligraphy and penmanship examples featuring a pair of angels with trumpets flying over a verse about industry and sloth.
"Specimen of Penmanship, Written at Dean's Writing Academy, City Library, New York. Running and Italian Hands. Written by Pierre Johnson. 1808."--text, bottom center of image. "Engraved by P. Maverick."--text, bottom margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 engraving : uncolored ; overall 21.59 x 26.51 cm (8 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_EDU_003834
501126
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4366
Language: English
Subject: Angels--Pictorial works
Lettering--Pictorial works
Penmanship
Intaglio prints--1800-1825. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Education
Small Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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