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Archives related to: Bryan, Thomas Jefferson, 1800?-1870
| title | Bryan Gallery of Christian Art collection [graphic]. | repository | The New-York Historical Society |
| description | Prints, photographs, and one drawing, ca. 1525 - ca. 1870, from the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art. All 158 prints are European works, mainly of religious subjects, but including some portraits, landscapes and allegorical scenes. Portraits include some from a set of portraits of the six wives of Henry VIII, and several self-portraits, mainly by Italian artists. Artists represented include: David Teniers, Rubens, Van Dyck, Watteau, Dürer, Titian, Philips Wouwerman, Nicolas Lancret, Aelbert Cuyp, Holbein, and Guido Reni. Engravers represented include Francesco Bartolozzi, Schelte Bolswert, Cornelis Cort, Christoffel Jegher, Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, Jean Moyreau, William Sharp, Cornelis Vermeulen, and Lucas Emil Vorsterman. The prints include etchings, engravings, stipple engraavings, and mezzotints.The albumen photographs show the Alhambra in Spain, and paintings in Perugia, Italy. The collection also contains one amateur crayon or pastel drawing, and two photomechanical reproductions, one in color, of engravings . Historical Note: First major American collector and connoisseur of European paintings. Opened the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art in his New York residence in 1852; transferred the collection to the New-York Historical Society in 1867. Library Holdings: New-York Historical Society Print Room Call Number PR-143g |
| extent | 158 prints. 31 photoprints : albumen. 2 photomechanical reproductions. 1 drawing. |
| formats | Prints Photographs Drawings Ephemera |
| access | Access: open to qualified researchers at the New-York Historical Society. |
| record link | http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=display&doc=nyu_aleph000766270&vid=NYU |
| record source | http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu |
| finding aid | Inventory available at repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan, April 2, 1867. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:51 |
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