Manuscripts

Lovell W. Vicars letter to Sir Joseph Duveen

Description: Enclosed in: letter from Duveen to Henry E. Huntington, 1921 November 15. Subjects: "Blue Boy," engraver Sydney E. Wilson.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1921 October 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.

Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

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Also: London Times article "The Taste for Dirt;" copy of announcement of exhibition of painting of Emma, Lady Hamilton, by Romney, Spring 1900; copy of telegram from Huntington to Duveen, 1924 November 10; copy of telegram from Duveen to Huntington, 1911. Subjects: Brockwell, Library walls, Birley's portraits of Henry E. Huntington and Arabella D. Huntington, Huntington's health, Mrs. Charles A. Painter, Ralph W. Booth, Detroit Institute of Arts, Blue Boy, Loudoun collection, Louis XVI temple, Perseus statue by Antonio Canova, and Duveen exhibition.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Arabella D. Huntington and Henry E. Huntington

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Subjects: Duveen Brothers exhibition, Romney's "Mrs. Lee Acton," Lawrence's "Mrs. Stratton," Blue Boy, and Alice De La Mar.

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Selma Lewisohn letter to Sir Joseph Duveen

Manuscripts

Enclosed in: letter from Duveen to Henry E. Huntington, 1925 May 25? Also: typewritten copy of letter.

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Duveen Brothers letters to Charles E. Graham

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Also: copy of interest statement to Henry E. Huntington, 1916 May 31; memos re: status of Duveen notes, 1917 March 16, April 10. Subjects: Henry E. Huntington's notes for Duveen and his account, invoice for Blue Boy.

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Walter L. Ehrich letter to Sir Joseph Duveen

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Enclosed in: Sir Joseph Duveen letter to Henry E. Huntington, 1922 May 8. Subjects: Stuart's full length portrait of Washington.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

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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Lovell W. Vicars letter to Sir Joseph Duveen

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