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Selected art related letters from Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Society Collection, 1760-1935

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Creator:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania  Search this
Subject:
Randolph, Benjamin  Search this
Trumbull, John  Search this
Abbey, Edwin Austin  Search this
Abbey, Mary Gertrude  Search this
Alexander, Archibald  Search this
Allston, Washington  Search this
Bayley, Frank W.  Search this
Beale, Pennel  Search this
Belcher, Wm. (William)  Search this
Bierstadt, Albert  Search this
Brodhead, Col  Search this
Burrell, B.  Search this
Carey, Edward L.  Search this
Carey, Henry Charles  Search this
Catlin, George  Search this
Ceracchi, Giuseppe  Search this
Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby)  Search this
Cheney, John  Search this
Clarke, Miss  Search this
Claypoole, James, Sr.  Search this
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor  Search this
Cox, James  Search this
Curren, Mr  Search this
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr  Search this
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808  Search this
Delaplaine, Joseph  Search this
Dillwyn, William  Search this
Donnehue, Humphrey  Search this
Duane, William J. (William John)  Search this
Dunlap, William  Search this
Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène  Search this
Elliott, James B.  Search this
Elwyn, Langdon, Mrs.  Search this
Eliot, S.  Search this
Fielding, Mantle, 1865-1941  Search this
Francis, John W. (John Wakefield)  Search this
Gibson, Charles Dana  Search this
Gillingham, Harrold E. (Harrold Edgar)  Search this
Greenough, Horatio  Search this
Harding, George  Search this
Hayes, Charles P.  Search this
Hollingsworth, Levi  Search this
Hosack, David, 1769-1835  Search this
Howell, Mr.  Search this
Hunt, William Morris  Search this
Huntington, Daniel  Search this
Inman, Henry  Search this
Jordan, John W. (John Woolf)  Search this
Jackson, William  Search this
Jones, Horatio Gates  Search this
Kimball, Henry H. (Henry Hastings)  Search this
Lambdin, James Reid  Search this
Leidy, Joseph  Search this
Leland, Charles Godfrey  Search this
Lippincott, J. B. (Joshua Ballinger)  Search this
Livermore, George  Search this
Low, Will Hicok  Search this
Madison, James, 1751-1836  Search this
Marchant, Edward Dalton  Search this
Martin, John Hill  Search this
McAllister, John A.  Search this
McMurtrie, James  Search this
Monaghan, James  Search this
Montgomery, John C., Mrs.  Search this
Moody, William H. (William Henry)  Search this
Murray, J.  Search this
Myers, Albert Cook  Search this
Nathans, Isabella  Search this
Nathans, Rebecca  Search this
Neagle, John  Search this
Newsam, Albert  Search this
Ogden, C. S.  Search this
Otis, Bass  Search this
Paca, John  Search this
Paine, Thomas  Search this
Peale, Charles Willson  Search this
Peale, Franklin  Search this
Peale, James  Search this
Peale, Mary Jane  Search this
Peale, Rembrandt  Search this
Peale, Titian Ramsay  Search this
Pennell, Joseph  Search this
Penrose, Clement B. (Clement Biddle)  Search this
Piggot, Robert  Search this
Read, Thomas Buchanan  Search this
Richards, William Trost  Search this
Rittenhouse, David  Search this
Rosenthal, Albert  Search this
Rossiter, Thomas Prichard  Search this
Rothermel, Peter Frederick  Search this
Rush, William  Search this
Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de  Search this
Sartain, John  Search this
Schoff, Stephen Alonzo  Search this
Schreiner, Jacob  Search this
Shrigley, James  Search this
Smith, Russell  Search this
Snowden, James Ross  Search this
Snyder, W. D.  Search this
Somerville, Dr.  Search this
Stanbridge, J. C.  Search this
Stone, Frederick D. (Frederick Dawson)  Search this
Stuart, Gilbert  Search this
Stephens, Charles H.  Search this
Sully, Thomas  Search this
Syng, Philip  Search this
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)  Search this
Troth, Henry  Search this
Vanderlyn, John  Search this
Vaux, Mr  Search this
Ward, Townsend  Search this
Wells, William Hill  Search this
Wharton, Geo. M. (George Mifflin)  Search this
Wharton, Mr  Search this
Wharton, Thomas Kelah  Search this
Williams, Henry  Search this
Willis, Nathaniel Parker  Search this
Wilson, Alexander  Search this
Woodside, John Archibald  Search this
Wright, Patience Lovell  Search this
Wylie, Samuel B. (Samuel Brown)  Search this
Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this
Carey & Hart  Search this
Place of publication, production, or execution:
Other
Physical Description:
2 Reels, ca. 150 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels)
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
Letters, mainly from artists, and documents selected from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's miscellaneous manuscript collection (Society Collection). Letters are to various people; 46 of them are to Townsend Ward and a few are to John A. McAllister, photographer. Many of the letters refer to paintings, portraits, commissions, and awards.
Writers of letters include: Edwin Austin Abbey, Mary Gertrude Abbey, F.W. Bayley, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Joseph Ceracchi, John Gadsby Chapman, John Cheney, James Claypool, James Cox, F.O.C. Darley, Joseph Delaplaine, Humphrey Donnehue, William Dunlap, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, S. Eliot, Charles Fevret De Saint-Memin, Charles Dana Gibson, Harold Edgar Gillingham, Horatio Greenough, George Harding, Levi Hollingsworth, William Morris Hunt, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Horatio Gates Jones, James Reid Lambdin, Will Hicok Low, Edward Dalton Marchant, William Henry Moody, John Neagle, Albert Newsam, Bass Otis, Thomas Paine, Charles Willson Peale, Franklin Peale, James Peale, Jr., Mary Jane Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale, Joseph Pennell, Clement Penrose, Robert Piggot, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Trost Richards, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Peter Frederick Rothermel, William Rush, John Sartain, Stephen Alonzo Schooff (to Townsend Ward), Russell Smith, Charles H. Stephens, Thomas Sully, Philip Syng, John Vanderlyn, N.P. Willis, Alexander Wilson and Patience Wright.
Among the recipients of letters are Archibald Alexander, David S. Brown, William Belcher, Col. Brodhead, B. Burrell, Carey & Hart, Edward L. Carey, Henry C. Carey, Miss Clarke, Mr. Curren, Joseph Delaplaine, John Dickinson, Dr. Dickson, William Dillwyn, William Duane, James B. Elliott, Mrs. Langdon Elwyn, Mantle(?) Fielding, John W. Francis, Charles P. Hayes, David Hosack, Mr. Howell, Major William Jackson, Horatio Gates Jones, John W. Jordan, H.H. Kjmball, C.G. Leland, Joseph Leidy, J.B. Lippincott, George Livermore, James Madison, J. Hill Martin, John McAllister, James McMurtrie, James Monaghan, J. Murray, Albert Cook Myers, Rebecca and Isabella Nathans, John Neagle, C.S. Ogden, John Paca, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, David Rittenhouse, Albert Rosenthal, John Sartain, Jacob Schreiner, James Shrigley, James Ross Snowden, W.D. Snyder, Dr. Sommerville, J.C. Stanbridge, F.D. Stone, Henry Troth, Mr. Vaux, Townsend Ward, William Hill Wells, G.M. Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Henry J. Williams, and Samuel B. Wylie.
Other items include a sonnet of S.T. Coleridge by Washington Allston; business card of Pennel Beale; catalog of medals and coins of silver in the possession of Hon. John Smith compiled by Du Simitière, 1772; printed address by Mrs. John C. Montgomery soliciting donations for the repair of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, destroyed by fire, 1845; William Morris Hunt's admission ticket to Peale's Museum, 1836, stating his height and weight; description of objects on display at the Peale Museum, 1820; a photograph and business card of Benjamin Randolph; invitations and notes to Gilbert Stuart; typescript by Frank H. Taylor on lithography, 1923; subscription book for engravings of paintings by John Trumbull; and a page from John Archibald Woodside's daybook, 1802-1803.
Citation:
Selected art related letters from Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Society Collection, 1760-1935. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reels P23 (fr. 513-705) & P24 (fr. 1-3) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Location of Originals:
Originals in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Society Collection.
Loan:
Loan
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Art, Modern -- 17th-18th centuries -- United States  Search this
Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States  Search this
Theme:
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)10935
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214712
AAA_collcode_histsopa
Theme:
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_214712