Manuscripts

Henry E. Huntington letter to Joseph Pijoan

Description: Subjects: painting of a monk by Diego Velazquez, Mrs. Siddons, and portrait of Thomas Gainsborough.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1924 January 31
Call number: mssHEH
Creator: Huntington, Henry Edwards (1850-1927)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edwin L. Lewis, November 1939.; Gift of Louise Ward Watkins, July 1946.; Gift of Collis Holladay, April 1967.; Gift of Mrs. Collis H. Holladay, 1977-1981.; Gift of Clifford Henry, May 1978.; Gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, 1978-1992.; Gift of Charles Apfelbaum, April 1981.; gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.; Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.

Serendipity Antique Shop letter to Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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Also: copy of Huntington's reply, 1925 March 12. Subjects: Thomas Lawrence painting, Thomas Gainsborough.

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B.F. Stevens & Brown letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: photograph of painting of Robert Burns; copy of letter from Huntington to B.F. Stevens & Brown, 1922 March 7; printed announcement of sale of painting of Oscar Wilde by Harper Pennington; invoice for portrait of John Milton (photocopy; original in HEH Art Gallery Archives); photograph and brief description of painting "The Last Muster," by Sir Hubert Herkomer; photograph of bust of Alexander Von Humboldt and printed item. Subjects: Sarah Siddons, "The Tragic Muse," by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: list of articles sent for approval; list of objects sent on approval; copy of telegram from Huntington to Duveen; black-and-white photograph of Turner's "The Marriage of the Adriatic." Subjects: Drouais' Bouchet family, Houdon bronze, Boucher tapestries, Guedalla and Lewis & Simmons case, Lawrence painting of Mrs. Peel, Washington portrait, death of Henry Duveen, Huntington's trip to Paris, Huntington's degree from NYU, Blue Boy purchase, Chelsea vases, Reynolds' "Strawberry Girl," Raeburn portrait of Sir Walter Scott, William Randolph Hearst, Maurice W. Brockwell, British parliamentary elections, Solomon collection, and James B. Ballard.

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Henry E. Huntington letter to W.B. Hill

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Also: letter from Hill to Huntington, 1926 October 4. Subjects: Gainsborough painting.

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Duveen Brothers letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: pencil memo by Huntington; various invoices and shipping notices; telegram from A. G. Walker to Huntington, 1912 February 28; copy of letter from Duveen Brothers to Henry E. Huntington, 1913 April 7. Subjects: Kahn collection, San Marino house, Drouais painting - Bouchet family, Gainsborough, engravings of Romney painting, iron gates, Lord and Lady Decies, "Little Red Riding Hood" by Sir Thomas Lawrence, garden ornaments, and marble fountain. Note: some are photocopies from the Huntington Art Gallery.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: letter from May de Riedemann to Huntington, 1925 April 1. Subjects: Archer Huntington and house contents, Arabella D. Huntington's estate, Mrs. Frick visit, Reynolds, Constable, Gainsborough, Birley's portraits, John Russell Pope, Lady Colefax, Andrew Mellon, Italian art purchase, Chelsea vases by Roubiliac, Louis XIV rug, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Tate Gallery, Blue Boy, Hugh Dillman, LeJeune bust, Horace Harding, Arthur Secor, Jacob Wasserman, "Pinkie," Roger Van der Weyden "Virgin and Child."

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Henry E. Huntington letter to Joseph Pijoan

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