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Sir Joseph Duveen and others unloading "Blue Boy,"

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Description: Wire photograph of the painting "Blue Boy," wrapped in paper, being unloaded by art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen and four other men onto a wagon in Los Angeles, California, after being purchased by the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. With typewritten caption: "Photo by International 1175--Los Angeles Bureau. Famous painting arrives. Pomp absent at entry of art wonder in Los Angeles. World's famous "Blue Boy" $850,000. Painting being unloaded from train. Photo shows [painting] being put on hand truck at station." With stamp on verso: "Warning!! This picture is supplied by 'International' Examiner Bldg., Los Angeles ..."
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Production date: 1922
Call number: photPF 20193
Provenance: Gift of Jennifer Allan Goldman, 2011.

The "Blue Boy" by Gainsborough

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Small printed flyer describing Thomas Gainsborough's portrait "Blue Boy." Probably designed to be handed out to the public or posted during one of the painting's frequent public exhibitions at the British Institution or the Royal Academy throughout the 19th century. Typographic style indicates that it was printed some time in the 1870s. The painting was sold to Henry E. Huntington in November 1921. Prior to its departure to California, "Blue Boy" was put on display in the National Gallery in London in January 1922.

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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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Lovell W. Vicars letter to Sir Joseph Duveen

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Enclosed in: letter from Duveen to Henry E. Huntington, 1921 November 15. Subjects: "Blue Boy," engraver Sydney E. Wilson.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

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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.

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Rolls of newsprint unloaded at the dock, Port of Los Angeles

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View of workers with rolls of newsprint paper being unloaded by a crane at a shipping dock in the Port of Los Angeles. A port building is seen in the background.

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Sir Joseph Duveen letters to Henry E. Huntington

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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."

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Sir Joseph Duveen and others unloading "Blue Boy,"

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