Handwriting porn

Oscar Wilde’s handwriting

Handwriting is my favorite thing to photograph whenever I visit museums.

Outside of the cool factor of being able to see how famous people who’ve died 100+ years ago wrote, there’s something so intimate about it.

Banker J.P. Morgan’s receipt for the book Ulysses from Shakespear & Co. bookstore in Paris

Mozart’s signature, from the collection of (of course) J.P. Morgan

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