Portraits of actors and playwrights [School piece or Penmanship sheet]
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This sheet has a border adorned with portraits of the British actors, playwrights and poets Samuel Foote, David Garrick, Charles Churchill, George Colman the Elder, and Robert Lloyd. There is a signature and inscription below dated Christmas 1773 and moral verses have added at center.
The work comes from a genre known as writing sheets, writing blanks, penmanship exercises, letter sheets or school pieces, published in Britain ca. 1660 to 1860 and used by students to demonstrate their handwriting abilities.
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