Skip to main content
COLLECTION Identifier: MS Eng 1272

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer letters to Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay

Overview

Letters to French artist Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay from English painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer.

Dates

  • Creation: 1838-1849 and undated

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

.1 linear feet (1 volume)

Contains correspondence primarily between Landseer and D'Orsay, concerning art exhibitions at the Royal Academy and various works for Landseer's patrons, including Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and Lord and Lady Chesterfield. Half of the letters contain drawings in pencil or ink, representing portraits, human figures, horses, and dogs. Also includes one letter from Baroness Lehzen to Landseer and one letter from Clarkson Stanfield of the Royal Academy to Landseer. Manuscript copies of 17 of these letters, written in an unidentified hand, are placed at the end.

Biographical / Historical

Landseer and Clarkson Stanfield were English painters. Orsay was a French artist.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

68M-37. Purchased with the Amy Lowell fund from H. D. Lyon, 18 Selwood Terrace, London S.W.7, England L451; received: 1968 August 8.

Title
Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1803-1873. Sir Edwin Henry Landseer letters to Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay, 1838-1849: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou01047

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.

Contact:
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440