Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Colnaghi, Dominic Paul, 1790-1879
| title | P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. letters received, 1802-1851. |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Letter from the artists William Watts, Pierre Tardieu, Nicolas Willemin, Paul Henri Marron, John Frederick Lewis, Charles Eastlake, James Stephanoff and others, primarily to Dominic Colnaghi. Letters discuss work in progress and other matters, and include requests to borrrow tools and prints from the dealers. With one letter from Ralph Bernal, a collector, mentioning several items he would like Colnaghi to find for him and two letters from Sidney T. Whiteford. Language: French |
| extent | 11 items. |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21126982330001551 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:31 |
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| title | Alexander Meyrick Broadley collection of autograph letters, ca. 1822-ca. 1902. |
| repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | With a small pen-and-ink sketch by Frith, and original photographs (some signed) of Frith, Queen Victoria, Sir Frederic Leighton, Millais, and M. E. Braddon. An edition of William Powell Frith’s ’Autobiography and Reminiscences’, with ’Further Reminiscences’ in 9 v. extra-illustrated with ca. 160 autograph letters plus ca. 400 engravings, prints, newspaper clippings, postcards, broadsides and photographs. Letters (including seven from Frith) are from artist contemporaries of Frith’s (painters, engravers, etc.) and talk about work in progress, the business of the Royal Academy or furnish biographical information. The letters (and corresponding photographs and illustrative materials) are bound-in where individuals are mentioned in the text; the index, occasionally, can be used to locate these. Other letters are from notable authors, actors, clergymen and politicians; some are addressed to Ernest Gambart. Individuals represented in the collection include E.A. Sothern, Joseph Nollekens [with pencil sketch], William Etty, Thomas Faed, Paul Delaroche, E.J. Poynter, Cardinal Manning, J.E. Millais, S.L. Fildes, Lady Burdette-Coutts, Shirley Brooks, John Doran, W.H. Hunt, Henrietta Ward, L. Alma Tadema, Edmund Yates, G.A. Sala, Mrs. S.C. Hall, J. Toole, Charles Barry, Clarkson Stanfield, James Ward, Sir George Hayter, Sir A.W. Callcott (to Copley Fielding), W. Calder Marshall, George Barrett, Adelaide A. Proctor, E.W. Cooke, Francis Chantrey, Thomas Woolner, Samuel Cousins, David Cox, Sir Frederic Leighton, Amelia B. Edwards, M.E. Braddon, Harry Furniss, F.C. Burnand, Madge Kendal, and Adelina Patti. Biographical or Historical Notes: British autograph collector. |
| extent | ca. 160 items. |
| formats | Correspondence Holographs Photographs Printed Materials Ephemera |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/mlc5om/GETTY_ALMA21140928710001551 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in the repository |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:31 |
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| title | Dominic Charles Colnaghi manuscript material: ca. mid-19th century (Pforzheimer Collection, Pforz MS (S'ANA 0556)) |
| repository | New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division |
| description | Found In: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925 (CStRLIN)NYPW03-A5 Notes: To Charles Cowden Clarke, writer and public lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : no date : (S'ANA 0556) answering a question about the Royal Academy of Arts prizes. Overwritten by Clarke : "An unerring authority I should say --- C.C.C." Dominic Charles Colnaghi, London art dealer. In 1825, he and his Italian-born father, Paul Colnaghi (by then a dealer of long standing), began trading as P. and D. Colnaghi & Co., the name by which the firm is still known. Location Humanities- Pforzheimer Collection Call Number Pforz MS (S'ANA 0556) ALS to Charles Cowden Clarke, n.d. |
| extent | 1 item |
| formats | Correspondence |
| access | Admission to the Pforzheimer Collection is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections. |
| record link | http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b16579045~S1 |
| record source | http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b16579045~S1 |
| acquisition information | Found In: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925 (CStRLIN)NYPW03-A5 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:37 |
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