William B. Osgood Field collection of European prints and drawings

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William B. Osgood Field collection of European prints and drawings

1700-1941

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Contains mainly prints from England, Ireland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, along with some drawings, dating from the early eighteenth century. Most of the prints date from the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, though some were printed in the twentieth century. Artists include: Louis Philippe Boltard (the younger), Henry William Bunbury, Samuel Collings, George Cruikshank, Isaac Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, Robert Dighton, John Doyle, Richard Doyle, James Gillray, C. J. Grant, Giles Grinagain, H. Heath, Theodore Lane, Thomas Rowlandson, James Sayers, Robert Seymour, A. Sharpshooter, C. Williams, George Moutard Woodward, and many others. Many of the topics of the prints relate to contemporary popular culture, including numerous political and cultural satires.

5.45 linear feet (20 boxes)

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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Field, William Bradhurst Osgood, 1870-1949

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William Bradhurst Osgood Field (1870-1949) was a landowner, collector and philanthropist from a New York family. He was the son of William Hazard Field and Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, and the nephew of Osgood Field, a society figure in London and Rome. William's sister, Mary Pearsall Field, was also a socialite.In 1902 he married Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field, the great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. They divided their time between their three family properties, 645 Fifth Avenue in Ma...