Visual Materials

Prints of paintings in the Vernon Gallery

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Description: This collection contains three prints of paintings in the Vernon Gallery: The Age of Innocence by Sir Joshua Renyolds, The Woodland Gate by William Collins, and The Scanty Meal by J.F. Herring.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1850s-1870s.
Call number: priPEF 59
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 2025.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

Queen Mary correspondence with C.H. Collins Baker regarding the King's paintings ; note written by Edward VII

Manuscripts

The letters include: a note written by Edward VII, enclosed in a letter from the Lord Chamberlain's Office (HM 82777); letters written from C.H. Collins Baker to Queen Mary (HM 82779, 82785, 82795); and letters written Queen Mary to C.H. Collins Baker (HM 82778, 82780-82784, 82786-82794). The letters between C.H. Collins Baker and Queen Mary discuss various paintings in the Royal collections, various Royal palaces and the purchase of paintings by the Queen. The letters are written from St. James's Palace, Windsor Castle, the National Gallery, Buckingham Palace and Sandringham; many letters with envelopes.

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Staff photographing paintings in the portrait gallery in the Huntington residence

Visual Materials

Four men watch as Dr. Batrig helps the photographer prepare to take a picture. The camera is mounted on a tripod, and artificial lights are on either side of the picture. The painting that is the focus of their photography is Thomas Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy (1770). Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 25 Apparatus for making exposures for color plates of paintings in New Gallery. Huntington Art Gallery." Photograph appeared in Los Angeles Times article of November 6, 1938. Another version of this is no. 545 Pictures Archives, box 3, folder 5. MS note on verso reads "Photograph of the equipment used for making color separation plates for Life Magazine."

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Home Painting Gallery

Visual Materials

One painting book entitled Home Painting Gallery, by F.I. Wetherbee, published by M.A. Donohue & Co., Chicago, copyright 1908. This painting book is comprised of chromolithograph images, black and white images for coloring, and blank pages for drawing. Descriptive and instructional text accompanies each image. The front cover is a chromolithograph collage of images which include a lace-covered table, a horse, a seated woman, and a boy writing in a chair. The back cover is blank. The images and exercises within this book range from very simple (drawing straight lines) to more complex coloring and shading. Many of the lithograph images have been colored in. "21-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page. "Annie McInley" is written in ms., in pencil, opposite the title page.

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Juvenile Painting Gallery

Visual Materials

One painting book entitled Juvenile Painting Gallery, by F. I. Wetherbee, published by M.A. Donohue & Co., Chicago, copyright 1908. The subtitle on the title page reads: "Being a collection of the most artistic color schemes ever produced in an instructive painting book, teaching accuracy, harmony, beauty and color with pencil, paint and brush. Complete instructions for the little artist." This painting book is comprised of chromolithographic plates and black and white outline drawings for coloring. Descriptive, instructive and playful text accompanies each image. The lessons progress from fundamental to more complex, and include lessons on form, perspective, shape, proportion and shading. All of the images in this book are the same as those in Box 37 Env. 04. The front cover of this book is a chromolithograph of a boy at an easel outdoors painting a picture of a girl. The back cover is blank.

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Portrait gallery in the Huntington residence

Visual Materials

The portraits on the walls, from left to right: George Romney's Penelope (Rycroft) Lee Acton (1791); Sir Joshua Reynolds' Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783-1784); Reynolds' Georgiana (Spencer) Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1775-1776); John Hoppner's Isabella (Ingram) Seymour Conway, Viscountess Beauchamp, later Marchioness of Hertford (circa 1789); Thomas Gainsborough's Henrietta Read, later Henrietta Meares (circa 1777); Gainsborough's The Hon. Anne (Batson) Fane (circa 1782); George Romney's Jeremiah Milles (1780-1783); Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy (1770). The bronze sculpture beneath "Blue Boy" is Mercure (Mercury) by an unknown foundry, after Antoine Coysevox, made between 1700 and 1710. MS note on verso reads "HEH art gallery: new wing (interior view)."

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Portrait gallery in the Huntington residence

Visual Materials

The portraits on the walls, from left to right: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie (1777); Sir Thomas Lawrence's Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie" (1794) above a bronze sculpture, Renommée (Fame) by an unknown foundry, after Antoine Coysevox, made between 1700 and 1710; Reynolds' Jane Fleming, later Countess of Harrington (1778-1779); Reynolds' Lavinia (Bingham), Countess Spencer, and John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later Earl Spencer (1783-1784); Thomas Gainsborough's Karl Friedrich Abel (circa 1777); George Romney's Penelope (Rycroft) Lee Acton (1791); Reynolds' Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783-1784); MS note on verso reads "HEH art gallery: new wing, c. 1933." Stamp on verso reads "Hiller Studio, 336 So. Hudson, TE. 6904 Pasadena."

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Prints of paintings in the Vernon Gallery

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