Duveen Brothers invoices for Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Description
Also: interest statement. Subjects: Chelsea vases, Romney's "Mrs. Willett," Gainsborough's "The Cottage Door," Turner's "Grand Canal," Reynolds' "Lady Crosbie," and "Lord Henry Spencer & Lady Charlotte Spencer."
gift of Edwards H. Metcalf, Collis H. Holladay, Jr., November 1981.
Gift of Southern California Transit District, December 1981.
gift of Alta California, January 1982.
Purchased from Frances Russell, March 1982.
Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1986.
gift of Collis H. Holladay, Jr., February 1992.
transferred from Ephemera, September 1992.
Gift of March 2001.
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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.
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."
Note: some are photocopies; originals in HEH Art Gallery archive. Also: copy of telegram from Huntington to Charles E. Graham, 1915 March 5; drafts of notes in Huntington's hand; two letters from Duveen Bros, Inc., to Charles E. Graham, 1923 August 28, 30. Subjects: gates for San Marino Ranch, Charles Willson Peale portrait of George Washington, Arabella Huntington's health, tapestries, Chelsea vases, California weather, Huntington's account, exhibition of "Blue Boy" in New York, "Strawberry Girl," "Mrs. Bedford & son," "The Beckford Children," "Mrs. Munroe," William R. Hearst, stone and bronze statues, "Marriage of the Adriatic" (Grand Canal), four bronze statues at the front of the library, Chateau Beauregard, burlap for walls of library exhibition rooms, portraits of the Huntingtons by Oswald Birley.
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.
