Account book, 1815-1854.

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Account book, 1815-1854.

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This octavo volume lists Bass Otis' accounts for the period 1815 to 1854, and consists of a list of names and prices of his portraits with the framers' names, notes on painting techniques and procedures in making lead and zinc moulds, "Rules by which the Painter is to be governed in the future," and an account of the number of tickets signed and held by the Adam and Eve Company. Several pages are devoted to rough and fine sketches of children in chairs, surgical instruments, Caleb Cresson's children, George Washington, and human hands. Also included is a list of Joseph Delaplaine's accounts for 1816, entries referring to painting in Philadelphia and traveling in Baltimore, Md., expense accounts, notes from Craig's Lectures on colors, and various newsclippings about stock prices, bank exchanges, a poem to the Marquis de Lafayette, and receipts for Otis' subscription to the "Journal of the Franklin Institute" in Philadelphia. Among items in the folder is a letter written by Otis in 1841 to a Boston attorney concerning the financial transactions of his daughter Susan P. Otis.

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