<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>An exact copy of a bill for the sum of ten shillings &amp; ten pence sent by a bricklayer to a gentleman for whom he had worked (the bricklayer could not write). [art original]</dc:title><dc:date>[1840?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A copy of an illiterate bricklayer's bill that was written with pictographs; the artist included a narrative description of its meaning below the image. The pictographs included three different sized stick-figures (two men and one boy), a four-square grid with three of the four squares filled with dots (three quarters of a day), two "Y" shaped symbols (hods of mortar), two "X" shaped symbols (10 shillings &amp; 10 pence), and a sketch of a hanged man (a settled bill).</dc:description><dc:description>Title from text inscribed with black ink within image.</dc:description><dc:description>Date from note inscribed with graphite pencil below image.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>