Manuscripts

Seligmann & Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1909-1920
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.

Seligmann & Co. letters to Arabella Huntington

Manuscripts

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.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Sir Joseph Duveen

Manuscripts

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.

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Henry E. Huntington letters to Frank Partridge

Manuscripts

Subjects: Boucher tapestries.

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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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P.W. French & Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Also: invoices, piece list of lengths of velvet, printed description of Lydig collection of Italian Renaissance furniture, and photocopy of letter, original in Art Gallery Archives, from Batterson & Eisele to P.W. French & Co, 1915 July 27, related to marble fountain; copies of letters from Charles E. Graham to P.W. French & Co., 1921 January 8 and December 13; copy of letter from Huntington to P.W. French & Co., 1923 March 28; 1925 June 10; 1926 April 20; statements of account. Subjects: Italian Renaissance fountain, garden statues, Roman sarcophagus, 17th century Italian temple.

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Sam'l E. Faroat invoice for Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Photocopies. Originals in Art Gallery archives. Also: statement by Annie J. Keenan with affidavit by W.R. Hervey relative to two Sevres vases.

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Seligmann & Co. letters to Henry E. Huntington

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