Detail of Elijah Boardman Boardman's right hand rests on a counting desk protected and decorated by green cloth secured with brass nails. The shelves of the desk house books, including Moore's Travels, Shakespeare's plays, Milton's Paradise Lost, Johnson's dictionary, and the "London Magazine" for 1786.
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