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Questions to be Resolved: or, A New Method of Exercising the Attention of Young People.
Interspersed with Various Pieces, calculated for Instruction and Amusement. Translated from the French.
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
To complete this portrait of Thomas Jefferson commissioned by the United States Military Academy, Thomas Sully stayed for twelve days at Monticello, making sketches and painting the half-length study seen here. Jefferson was concerned that the…
Portrait of Samuel Vaughan
Samuel Vaughan married Sarah Hallowell, the daughter of the King's Naval Commissioner in Boston, in 1750. The couple moved to Jamaica, where Benjamin was born, and later moved back to their house in London. In all, they had eleven children. A patriot…
Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
Joseph Priestley was an outspoken minister and one of the founders of rational Unitarianism. He was also a renowned natural philosopher, who is perhaps most famous for discovering oxygen. He developed innovative teaching methods at Warrington…
Portrait of Joseph Priestley
Profile portrait of Joseph Priestley, white on green jasper dip. ”PRIESTLEY” at bottom. ”Wedgwood/O” on back. After c. 1776 bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi.
