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.