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Autographs and Sketches from Artist Friends to Samuel P. Avery, 1874–1880
Author: Samuel Putnam Avery (American, 1822–1904)
Letter-book (manuscript); 1 vol.; H: 11 3/8 in. (29 cm)
Presented by Amy Ogden Welcher and Emma Avery Welcher (272.4 Au8)
This collection includes illustrated autograph letters, calling cards, receipts, and so forth from prominent nineteenth-century painters, printmakers, and art historians, such as Adolph-William Bouguereau, Jules Breton, George Cruikshank, Jean-Jacques Henner, William Holman Hunt, and J. M. Millais. The book is bound by Stikeman, in full blue goatskin, with gold-tooled lines on covers and spine.


Illustrated: illustrated letter with messages from artists Jean-Léon Gérome, J. M. Millais, and William Hollman Hunt