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Six people in period costume in the dining room in the Huntington residence

Description: The people, from left to right, are Victor Mature, Connie Compaigne, Sheila Stapler, "Buck" Edgar Buchanan, Hal Landon, and Ann West (Wood). Compaigne and Buchanan are seated at a table in dining room, while a standing Mature speaks to Compaigne, and Stapler carries a silver tray. Landon is standing next to the fireplace speaking to a seated West. George Romney's Catherine (Halead) Burton (1789) hangs over the fireplace. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "Tea party group in Dining Room, Huntington Art Gallery. Original fireplace from old house in Hanover Square, London, 1755. Chairs, Georgian, about 1740. Tea table, about 1760." Buchanan has elsewhere been identified as Frederick Blanchard.
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Date: February 1938
Call number: photCL 107 vol13 (29a)
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Six people in period costume around tea table in dining room in the Huntington residence

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The people, from left to right, are Victor Mature, Connie Compaigne, Sheila Stapler, "Buck" Edgar Buchanan, Hal Landon, and Ann West (Wood). Compaigne and Buchanan are seated at a table in dining room, while a standing Mature speaks to Compaigne, and Stapler carries a silver tray. Landon is standing next to the fireplace speaking to a seated West. George Romney's Catherine (Halead) Burton (1789) hangs over the fireplace. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "Tea party group in Dining Room, Huntington Art Gallery. Original fireplace from old house in Hanover Square, London, 1755. Chairs, Georgian, about 1740. Tea table, about 1760." Buchanan has elsewhere been identified as Frederick Blanchard.

photCL 107 vol13 (29c)

Six people in period costume around tea table in dining room in the Huntington residence (Victor Mature on left, Frederick Blanchard seated)

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photCL 107 vol13 (29b)

Six people in period costume in the small drawing room in the Huntington residence

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Thomas Gainsborough's Anne (Luttrell), Duchess of Cumberland (circa 1777). A couple stands next to the fireplace. Two women and one man are seated at a table playing cards, with a man standing nearby. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 37 Small drawing room, Huntington Art Gallery, with figures. Same as PCP 12."

photCL 107 vol13 (37)

Dining room in the Huntington residence

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View shows table and chairs, and the fireplace. Above the fireplace is George Romney's Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789); on the wall next to this is Sir Thomas Lawrence's Emily Anderson: Little Red Riding Hood (circa 1821). Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 19 Dining room, Huntington Art Gallery."

photCL 107 vol13 (19)

Dining room in the Huntington residence

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View shows furniture and the fireplace. Above the fireplace is George Romney's Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789). Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 18 Dining room, Huntington Art Gallery."

photCL 107 vol13 (18)

Six people in period costume in the east end of the library of the Huntington residence

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Three couples in period costume in the east end of the library. The couple on the left sit at a mechanical writing table (table à écrire, or, table mécanique), possibly by Jean-François Oeben, circa 1755 to 1765. Behind them is a fire screen, "L'Amour Vendangeur (Cupid, the Vintager)", made at the Beauvais Manufactory after a cartoon following Francois Boucher in 1738 to 1740 or in 1767. The couple on the right, with the man playing the violin, stand in front of a writing desk (bureau plat), attributed to the Pagoda Master, made circa 1730. The third couple stand in the background next to the fireplace. Hanging on the wall on the left is a Beauvais tapestry, "Le Fontaine d'Amour (The Fountain of Love)." The chairs belong to the set of two settees and ten chairs whose upholstery covers were woven at Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 31 East end of Library room in Huntington Art Gallery. Beauvais tapestry at left. Chairs, Louis XVI; tables, screen, Louis XV period; Savonnerie carpet, Louis XIV period."

photCL 107 vol13 (31)

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Six people in period costume in the small drawing room in the Huntington residence

Dining room in the Huntington residence

Dining room in the Huntington residence

Six people in period costume in the east end of the library of the Huntington residence