Some items are photocopies; originals in Art Gallery Archives. Also: invoice for items purchased by Arabella Huntington, 1910 May-October. Subjects: Jacques Neilson, Sir Joseph Duveen, Francois Boucher tapestries.
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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Some items are photocopies; originals in Art Gallery Archives. Also: invoices for items purchased by Huntington, 1911-1920; letter from Arthur Bloche to Seligmann & Co., in French, with English translation, describing and authenticating Boucher tapestries. Subjects: Francois Boucher tapestries, Savonnerie screens, bronze statues, Chinese porcelain, marble vases, Clodion firedogs.
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.
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.
