Writing Collection

GEUR2D-00047
Arabic inscription carved in a palace wall of the Alhambra, a medieval Moorish city, Granada, Spain. Digital photograph

Chart of some early alphabets
Various ancient alphabets: Coptic, Syriac, Ethioptic, Gothic, and Illyrian (Servian). Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

PANC2A-00033
A manuscript of Demosthenes copied by hand in the tenth century. Color lithograph reproduction, 19th century

Joseph Smith translating the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith translating the Mormon " Golden Bible" aloud to Oliver Cowdery, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Charles Dickens writing
Charles Dickens at his writing desk. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Scribe copying manuscripts in the Middle Ages
Medieval scribe writing at a desk, surrounded by open manuscripts. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Part of the Magna Carta preamble
Portion of the Preamble to the Magna Carta. Watercolor wash on a 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an original copy in the British Museum

Ulfilas, Christian missionary to the Visigoths
Bishop Ulfilas translating the Bible into Gothic, 4th century AD. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Martin Luther writing
Martin Luther at his desk. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Medieval monks studying manuscripts
Benedictine monks poring over medieval manuscripts. Antique hand-colored print

Leonardo da Vinci sketch for a siege machine
Military machine for firing arrows with a crossbow, designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Woodcut with a watercolor wash

Leonardo da Vinci drawing of a canal dredge
Leonardo da Vincis drawing of a device for excavating a canal. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash

Writing with a quill pen
Scholar using a quill pen. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Medieval monks studying geometry and copying a manuscript
Monk scholars - a mathematician studying a globe, the other copying a manuscript, 1200s. Hand-colored woodcut

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics on an obelisk in Paris
Hieroglyphics on the ancient Egyptian obelisk from Luxor in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, presented to King Louis-Philippe in the 1800s. Digital photograph

Assyrian or Babylonian scribes using flexible media as well as clay tablets for cuneiform writing. Hand-colored 19th-century halftone reproduction of ancient artwork

Hebrew traders in a Phoenician seaport
King Solomons ships unloading goods to trade with Phoenicians. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

PPRE2A-00125
George Washington writing at his desk by candlelight. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

PEXP2A-00118
Bartolome de Las Casas, Spanish missionary and New World historian. Hand-colored woodcut

BUSN2A-00090
Scribes using the stylus and other means of writing in ancient times. Hand-colored woodcut

PLIT2A-00031
William Shakespeare writing in his study. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Carved portal, Nasrid Palace in the Alahambra, Granada, Spain
Intricately carved portal of the Nasrid Palaces of the Alhambra, a medieval Moorish city, Granada, Spain. Digital photograph

Monk copying a medieval manuscript
Medieval copyist writing a manuscript on a sheet of vellum, 1400s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of an earlier illustration

Ogham inscription and sun symbol on an Old Irish gravestone
Pagan gravestone carved with sun symbols and Old Irish Ogham cipher, Ireland. Watercolor wash on a halftone reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

Arithmentic lesson of young Abe Lincoln
Page from Abraham Lincolns exercise book when he was age 17. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash

Paul writing the Epistles
Paul in a Roman prison, writing the Epistles. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

PART2A-00063
Leonardo da Vincis backward handwriting on his design for a lamp using a globe filled with water. 19th-century woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash

PROY2A-00033
Napoleon dictating to his secretaries. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Erasmus
Portrait of the Dutch philosopher, Erasmus. Digitally colored engraving

BUSN2A-00155
Writing master using a quill pen. Hand-colored engraving of an illustration

Erasmus Colloquies
Colloquies of Erasmus, hand-bound edition published in Basel, 1537. Hand-colored engraving

EXPL2A-00117
Sketch by William Clark of Cock of the Plains in the Lewis and Clark expedition diary. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century reproduction of the diary

EXPL2A-00116
Diary kept by William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition 1804 - 1806. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century reproduction of the diary

PBLA2A-00006
Poet Phyllis Wheatly. Hand-colored woodcut of an 18th-century illustration

PBLA2D-00007
Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

Schoolgirls in ancient Rome
Girls with writing implements in ancient Rome. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of an ancient illustration

PREV2A-00029
Patrick Henry writing. Hand-colored engraving of a painting by Alonzo Chappel

EVRV2D-00043
General Washingtons desk at his winter camp headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Digital photograph of a restored National Park site

PPRE2A-00083
Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

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