The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Bound collection assembled by Bray of 39 landscape and figure sketches drawn on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, by William Morris Hunt and by his peers and students, including Ellen Day Hale, Susan Hale, Jane Hunt, Fitz Hugh Lane, and others. They are evidence of the artistic community of late nineteenth-century Gloucester, and they reflect the influence of Hunt's teaching on his students.
Citation:
Magnolia Sketch Book, 1829-1908. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reel 2329 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Original in the possession of the Cape Ann Historical Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Loan:
Loan
Biography Note:
Maria H. Bray was the proprietress of Willow Cottage, a boardinghouse in the Magnolia section of Gloucester, Mass., where many of William Morris Hunt's students stayed.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1981 by the Cape Ann Historical Association, which received it from Theodora Willard, the neice of Maria H. Bray.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
