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Man in top hat and red waistcoat writes in a barn while a dog sleeps nearby and a rider passes outside.

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Calculating, Thomas Hicks (1844), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Via artnap.com

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A seated man in a top hat, red waistcoat and white coat writes or calculates on a small sheet held on his knee inside a timber barn. A dog rests on the floorboards near a stone jug, while an open doorway frames a rural road with a rider in blue. Thomas Hicks painted this work titled Calculating in 1844, held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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