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Black Ink

[Rosebud page in Sarah Schenck autograph album, 1826–1842]

[“Map of Matrimony” in the Julia Powys commonplace book, ca. 1819–1820]

[“Forget me not”: page in Miss Catharine Lowe’s album, 1827–1841]

[“To Miss Annie Paxton, who drest as a fairy, stood upon a leaf of the Victoria Regina, Chatsworth, 1849,” in the Blanche Paxton Album on William Makepeace Thackeray]

[A floral offering in Miss Gilman’s Album, manuscript, 1822–1823]

View in the Roman Forum (The Temple of Peace)