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The "Nag's Head portrait" of Theodosia Burr : this brochure especially prepared for Miss Annie Burr Jennings by the Macbeth Gallery, New York
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Title
The "Nag's Head portrait" of Theodosia Burr : this brochure especially prepared for Miss Annie Burr Jennings by the Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1937.
Physical Description
1 v. ([14] p.) : ports., photograph ; 36 cm
Language
English
Notes
Handwritten title page.
Portfolio of blue leather with gold tooling, silk linings and front pockets for the enclosures, made up with six large sheets forming a single, unsewn signature, secured to the leather case by a silk twisted cord.
In English.
Provenance
Gift of the Macbeth Gallery.
Access and use
This collection is open for research.
Summary
A collection of clippings (some loose, others laid in, or pasted in), copies of letters, typed quotes from published works (The history of the Burr Portraits" by John E. Stillwell), about the provenance of "The Nag's Head Portrait" including the story of the acquisition of the portrait of Theodosia Burr by Annie Burr Jennings in 1936. Also laid in are two letters about the sale of the painting from Robert Macbeth to Miss Jennings and two other letters (one from 'Oliver' and the other from Alice Acheson) ed friends of Miss Jennings who apparently forwarded that newspaper clippings that are laid in. Also included is a photograph of the painting.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
April 26, 2010
References
Macbeth Gallery, The "Nag's Head Portrait" of Theodosia Burr. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Macbeth Gallery, The "Nag's Head Portrait" of Theodosia Burr. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Scrapbooks.
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