The Art of Preparing and Making the Materials used in Writing [School piece or Penmanship sheet]

Inscription: In plate, along top edge: "The Art of preparing and making / the Materials used in WRITING / No. 28"
in plate, below upper scene: "THE PAPER MILL"
in plate, below left upper scene: "POUNCE / is made by finely / pounding the bone of the / Cuttle Fish and Resin / in equal parts: / Some add a small quantity of Burnt Alum."
in plate below lower left scene: "BLACK INK. / Galls in Powder 3 oz-s. / and 10 oz. of Roman Vitriol. / infuse them in Rain water / two Days. / then put 10 oz. of Gum Arabic / and warm all over a / gentle Fire."
in plate, below right upper scene: "QUILLS. / The common method is / by baking them in an Oven. / To clarify Goose Quills / You must first make them / very hot in a Sand heat. / and temper them in Linseed Oil."
in plate, below right lower scend: "SEALING WAX. / Take 3 oz-s. of white Resin. / melt it in a Pipkin, add 4 oz-s. / of Gum Shelack, & 1/2 an ox. of / Camphire, dissolve the whole / over a Fire, colour it with / Vermilion, or Ivory-black, / and make it into / STICKS."
in plate, along bottom edge of lower cartouche border: "Printed for & Sold by CARINGTON BOWLES, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard / London."
in plate, along lower edge: "Published as the Act directs 17 Apr. 1786"
in pen and ink, at upper center: "In the conversation of a well chosen, dis / creet and virtuous Freind the understand / ing is improved good thoughts are en / gendered, and generous actions are pur / sued."
in pen and ink, at center: "Endeavour to pursue / virtuous mens ways."
in pen and ink, lower center: "Scarce an ill, to human life belongs, / But what our follies cause or mutual wrongs; / Or if some stripes from providence we feel, / He strikes with pity, / and but wounds to heal."
in pen and ink within cartouche at bottom of sheet: "Written at Mr. Trubey's Academy / Red Lion Court Bermondsey Street, / for Whitsuntide 1786 by Joshua Brookes"

Marking: Watermark: crowned shield with horn [no date]

Mrs. Bella C. Landauer (American)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Innocence and Experience: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints," February 9, 2023–May 16, 2023.