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1842 ca.
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Landscape watercolor painted by Grant as cadet at West Point
Signed in right hand corner "U.H. Grant". Includes 4 items collateral paperwork.
GLC07641
31 August 1787
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Catharine Littlefield Greene
Discusses Mrs. Greene's financial situation and her children. Mentions the quality of the schools in France as being one of the best, where "the system is admirably adapted to impress the best habits - both of body and mind - Dancing fencing... "...
GLC02437.03649
1880/05/10
Bissell, George E., fl. 1875-1895
to Benson J. Lossing re: monument for Custer and Little Big Horn
Mentions showing Genl. Custer's widow "a sketch I have just made for a monument for Gen. Custer and his men, killed at Little Big Horn".
GLC07025.01
1875/11/11
to Benson J. Lossing re: Colchester Monument; Saratoga Monument
Writes about descriptions of Colchester Monument for Harper's Bazaar and ideas for Saratoga Monument.
GLC07025.02
December 21, 1895
to Benson J. Lossing re: Colchester Monument; traveling to Rome
Writes of Colchester Monument and a planned trip to Rome where he will embrace "The atmosphere of art, which I suppose must make artists of all who inhale it".
GLC07025.03
1838/09/27
Page, William, fl. 1838
to John P. Ridner re: financial matters, portrait in progress of J.Q. Adams
GLC07026
1859/12/18
Sully, Thomas, 1738-1872
to Alfred Sully re: fashion in art
Sully writes "The taste for modern, and perhaps for ancient paintings is very changeable. The reign of a fashionable artist is short, and he does well who 'makes hay, while the sun shines'."
GLC07027
1793/04/04
Trumbull, John, fl. 1775-1793
to Andrew Craigie re: sending pictures of the President and Vice-President
GLC07028
1848/06/12
Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852
to Ingraham Kip re: selling his work
Discussed the inability to sell two "views of Niagra Falls", "It is painful and humiliating to the artist to be obliged to stoop...to procure a sale".
GLC07029
1818/09/23
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
to June Porter re: sending three pencils used in creating religious works
(Pencils not included.) Written on Newman Street of London
GLC07030
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