1[Spring 1759.] (Adams Papers)
...of Nature, and the Productions of Art, as Painting, Statuary, Poetry, oratory &c., but are...
2[July 1766] (Adams Papers)
...conspicuous? in Reasoning? in Imagination? in Painting? in the Pathetic? or what? In...
3Tuesday July 29th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
...conspicuous? in Reasoning? in Imagination? in Painting? in the Pathetic? or what? In...
4[August 1774] (Adams Papers)
...where he shewed Us a Series of Anatomical Paintings of exquisite Art. Here was a great...
51774. Aug. 30. Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
...where he shewed Us a Series of Anatomical Paintings of exquisite Art. Here was a great...
6[October 1774] (Adams Papers)
...I wonder, the Reformation ever succeeded. The Paintings, the Bells, the Candles, the Gold and...
71774. Sunday [9 October]. (Adams Papers)
...I wonder, the Reformation ever succeeded. The Paintings, the Bells, the Candles, the Gold and...
81774. Fryday. Octr. 14. (Adams Papers)
...honest Patriot. He shewed us some curious Paintings upon Silk which he brought from Italy...
...English. In Italian, upon Musick, Statuary, Painting, than in any other. In Greek on...
10Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 3 September 1771 (Adams Papers)
...buildings, the Churches, the libraries, the paintings, the amusements, and the manners of...
11John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
...always to discuss the Question, without all Painting, Pathos, Rhetoric, or Flourish of every...
12From John Adams to William Tudor, 7 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
..., Bowings, Kneelings and Genuflections, Images, Paintings, Crucifixs, Velvet, Gold, but...
13Plain Truth, 17 November 1747 (Franklin Papers)
..., Houses and Country Seats, your Statues, Paintings, and all your other Possessions, which...
14Scheme of the First Philadelphia Lottery, 5 December 1747 (Franklin Papers)
..., and old Gustavus Hesselius earned £4 painting the gun carriages, possibly with stripes...
15Poor Richard Improved, 1748 (Franklin Papers)
...any musick, delight his eye with any painting, any sculpture, any architecture, and...
16Miscellaneous Lottery Papers, 1748 (Franklin Papers)
To painting four Field cariages
17Deed of Settlement of the Philadelphia Contributionship, 25 March 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...rebuild the same with all convenient Speed, Guilding, History-Painting and Carving excepted.
18To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 26 August 1752 (Franklin Papers)
Du fresnoy’s Art of Painting, by DrydenDe Pile’s Art of Painting
19William Watson to the Royal Society, 20 December 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...Leeds, where he received his first instruction in painting; moved to London as a youth and...
20Poor Richard Improved, 1753 (Franklin Papers)
Paintings and Fightings are best seen at a distance.
21From Benjamin Franklin to William Smith, 19 April 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...and Jacob Duché in literature, Benjamin West in painting, and John Morgan in medicine. Oxford...
22From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 9 May 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...s History of the Popes, nor Delaresse’s Art of Painting, nor Crito, are to be found in Mr....
23Poor Richard Improved, 1755 (Franklin Papers)
Painting or Sculpture, yield to charm the Eye;And, painting to his Mind the bustling Scenes
24Scheme of the Second Academy Lottery, 11 March 1755 (Franklin Papers)
...443 for alterations in the hall, including painting, plastering, and the construction of a...
25William Franklin to Elizabeth Graeme, 9 December 1757 (Franklin Papers)
...lighted with Lamps; the elegant Paintings and Sculpture with which the Boxes, the grand...
26From Benjamin Franklin to Hugh Roberts, 16 September 1758 (Franklin Papers)
...the tile, May 15, 1760, remarking on its fine painting, “a great curiosity.”
27From Benjamin Franklin to Sir Alexander and Lady Dick: Joys of Prestonfield Adieu!, [15–20 October? 1759] (Franklin Papers)
. The painting descended to Alexander’s niece Mariamne, wife of Jonathan...
28From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Kames, 3 January 1760 (Franklin Papers)
...a Board, and I imagine the Practice of painting Portraits on Boards did not come down so...
29From Benjamin Franklin to Lord Kames, 3 May 1760 (Franklin Papers)
. It is as properly an Art, as Painting, Navigation, or Architecture. If a Man would become...
30To Benjamin Franklin from Hugh Roberts, 15 May 1760 (Franklin Papers)
The fine painting on the Birmingham Tile thou sent, was a great...
31To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Stevenson, [August 1760 ?] (Franklin Papers)
...that the outside is quite lost. There are some Paintings at the Altar, but I own they did...
32From Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Morris, 20 February 1761 (Franklin Papers)
Webb on PaintingAn Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting
33From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 14 September 1761 (Franklin Papers)
...suggested that Greenwood may also have done the first known painting of
34From Benjamin Franklin to Caleb Whitefoord, 9 December 1762 (Franklin Papers)
Painting has yet scarce made her Appearance among us; but...
35From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 25 March 1763 (Franklin Papers)
...some of our young Geniuses begin to lisp Attempts at Painting, Poetry and Musick.
36To Benjamin Franklin from Margaret Stevenson, [1763?] (Franklin Papers)
...in and at the same time my House was Painting for I assur you my Pations has not binn...
37To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Moffatt, 12 May 1764 (Franklin Papers)
..., his house was sacked, and his paintings, books, and scientific instruments destroyed....
38To Benjamin Franklin from Deborah Franklin, 8 January 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...he ses thair is no such Thing as painting till next March with ought the wather shold olter...
39From Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin, 9 February 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...the Revolution and in John Trumbull’s painting of the battle of Bunker Hill is...
40To Benjamin Franklin from Mather Byles, [1765–1766] (Franklin Papers)
...the Virtuosi to collect the Jugs and Galipots with the Paintings of Raphael.
41From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson, 14 September 1767 (Franklin Papers)
Here is an Exhibition of Paintings, &c. like ours in London, to which Multitudes...
42To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Gordon, 5 February 1769 (Franklin Papers)
...Several Years in Italy for his improvement in Painting, and is now going to London for...
43Ezra Stiles: Memoir and Conjecture, 1 May 1769 (Franklin Papers)
.... wrote a piece against these paxton Boys, painting forth an atrocious Crime and calling for...
44From Benjamin Franklin to Humphry Marshall, 9 July 1769 (Franklin Papers)
...Specimens of the several Colours suitable for Painting which you have found in different...
45From Benjamin Franklin to Jeremiah Meyer, [before 20 April 1771] (Franklin Papers)
The day when the painting that occasioned this note was sent to
46From Benjamin Franklin to Anna Mordaunt Shipley, 13 August 1771 (Franklin Papers)
...languages and the classics, and she studied painting under Sir Joshua Reynolds. Her husband,...
47To Benjamin Franklin from Agatha Drummond, [19 November 1771] (Franklin Papers)
had become interested in this painting, ostensibly of William Penn, on his visit to the...
48From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Dawson, 29 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
For Wilson, who combined painting with science, see above,
49From Benjamin Franklin to Peter P. Burdett, 21 August 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...president of a local academy of painting and sculpture and contributed to the......Paintings....
50From Benjamin Franklin to Peter P. Burdett, 3 November 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...is admirable. No one would suppose it any thing but Painting.