1Plain Truth, 17 November 1747 (Franklin Papers)
..., Houses and Country Seats, your Statues, Paintings, and all your other Possessions, which...
2Scheme of the First Philadelphia Lottery, 5 December 1747 (Franklin Papers)
..., and old Gustavus Hesselius earned £4 painting the gun carriages, possibly with stripes...
3Poor Richard Improved, 1748 (Franklin Papers)
...any musick, delight his eye with any painting, any sculpture, any architecture, and...
4Miscellaneous Lottery Papers, 1748 (Franklin Papers)
To painting four Field cariages
5Deed of Settlement of the Philadelphia Contributionship, 25 March 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...rebuild the same with all convenient Speed, Guilding, History-Painting and Carving excepted.
6To Benjamin Franklin from William Strahan, 26 August 1752 (Franklin Papers)
Du fresnoy’s Art of Painting, by DrydenDe Pile’s Art of Painting
7William Watson to the Royal Society, 20 December 1752 (Franklin Papers)
...Leeds, where he received his first instruction in painting; moved to London as a youth and...
8Poor Richard Improved, 1753 (Franklin Papers)
Paintings and Fightings are best seen at a distance.
9From Benjamin Franklin to William Smith, 19 April 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...and Jacob Duché in literature, Benjamin West in painting, and John Morgan in medicine. Oxford...
10From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 9 May 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...s History of the Popes, nor Delaresse’s Art of Painting, nor Crito, are to be found in Mr....