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Archives related to: Colnaghi, Dominic Paul, 1790-1879

titleP. & D. Colnaghi & Co. letters received, 1802-1851.
repositoryThe Getty Research Institute
descriptionLetter 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
extent11 items.
formatsCorrespondence
accessOpen for use by qualified researchers.
record linkn/a
record sourcehttps://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21126982330001551
updated02/14/2025 10:07:31
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titleAlexander Meyrick Broadley collection of autograph letters, ca. 1822-ca. 1902.
repositoryThe Getty Research Institute
descriptionWith 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.
extentca. 160 items.
formatsCorrespondence Holographs Photographs Printed Materials Ephemera
accessOpen for use by qualified researchers.
record linkn/a
record sourcehttps://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/mlc5om/GETTY_ALMA21140928710001551
finding aidFinding aid available in the repository
updated02/14/2025 10:07:31
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titleDominic Charles Colnaghi manuscript material: ca. mid-19th century (Pforzheimer Collection, Pforz MS (S'ANA 0556))
repositoryNew York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division
descriptionFound 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.
extent1 item
formatsCorrespondence
accessAdmission to the Pforzheimer Collection is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections.
record linkhttp://catalog.nypl.org/record=b16579045~S1
record sourcehttp://catalog.nypl.org/record=b16579045~S1
acquisition informationFound In: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925 (CStRLIN)NYPW03-A5
updated02/14/2025 10:07:37
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