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A later impression published by R. Sayer is in the British Museum.  However, Martin Breslauer of Museum Street, London, in Catalogue  No.70, March 1950, describes the only recorded copy of Bickham’s <i>The penman’s companion</i>, 1732, with this group of portraits as frontispiece.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Portrait of Robert More II (1671-1727?); cutting from engraving by George Bickham I (ca.1684-1769), 'Writing Masters of London'. Probably the frontispiece to George Bickham's 'The penman's companion', 1732, London.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1965</u> pub. 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