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Permission slip for Phineas Staunton to sketch collection objects
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
December 11, 1838
(Original courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)

To the keeper of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts—

The bearer, Mr. Phineas Staunton, an artist,
is entitled to open admission into the Academy
for improvement of drawing from the casts
of– –

Jos. Hopkinson, [President]

Dec 11, 1838