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The Handwriting of Famous People
- Aloha 8y agoNotably, two examples on here were very clearly not in the famous persons hand. Marie Antoinette and Stephen Hawking.
- ryanianian 8y agoWhy is it "very clearly" not theirs? Antoinette's is written with perfect-looking calligraphy; I suspect she was capable of that. And ya, the Hawking one is just his thumb-print but still kinda cool no-less and in a similar spirit to the others.
- GeorgeRichard 8y agoBecause the caption says "LETTER SIGNED TO FERDINAND IV, KING OF NAPLES, VERSAILLES, SEPTEMBER 24, 1788" (I am quoting verbatim, not shouting) rather than, for instance, the Proust example which is captioned "AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT OF THE OPENING PASSAGE, CA. MARCH–APRIL 1913" where autograph means written in the author's own handwriting.
- magic_beans 8y agoFrankly, I don't find the handwriting of Famous People any more interesting than the handwriting of the Non-Famous.
- ryanianian 8y agoThat's somewhat the point. It humanizes these "famous people" by showing that their actual "work" (literally in the case of Newton and others) wasn't that different from anyone else's.
- trentmb 8y agoEverybody poops.
- dade_ 8y agoI've been using a tablet with active stylus for a while now and wanted to improve my handwriting, specifically to make it less tiring. I learned some great pointers on this site, "Tips for improving your handwriting": http://paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html http://paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html
- unit91 8y agoWow! Marie Antoinette's writing is a work of art. Beautiful.
- GeorgeRichard 8y agoI think the letter was written by someone else - the only part by Marie Antoinette being the rather less attractive signature.
- unit91 8y agoAh good call, didn't see that. Nevertheless, her scribe did an amazing job!
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoSite takes ages to load on my 4g connection. What size images are they pushing? Holy cow.