A letter writer with customers in Padua, Italy, 19th century

A letter writer with customers in Padua, Italy, 19th century. He sits at a desk with quill pen, and a crowd of women customers dictate love letters to him. A printseller shows prints beside him. The Italian Scribe. Handcoloured wood engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from W. H. Harrison's The Humourist, a Companion for the Christmas Fireside, Rudolph Ackermann, 19 Strand, London, 1831

19th Century Anecdote Comical Companion For The Christmas Fireside Customers Dictation Literacy Padua Printseller Quill Pen Rudolph Ackermann The Humourist Thomas Rowlandson W. H. Harrison Wood Engraving

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