Harper's Magazine Autograph Letter collection

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Harper's Magazine Autograph Letter collection

1851-1895

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97db76564-9b97-4084-898b-730ae3ebcced

Letters from artists and writers to HARPER'S MAGAZINE dealing with late nineteenth-century illustrations and articles for that publication. A separate group concerns Whistler's suit against Harper and Brothers for its alleged libel in DuMauriers's TRILBY, and another comprises eighteen James Jackson Jarves letters, 1853-1855, on his articles. Some of the correspondents are Poultney Bigelow, William Merritt Chase, A.B. Frost, Richard Morris Hunt, Francis Millet, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Charles S. Reinhardt, Albert E. Sterner and J.Q.A. Ward.

Archives of American Art

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6769429

Archives of American Art

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t837qg (person)

James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888) was an American newspaper editor, and art critic who is remembered above all as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters. Jarves was the editor of an early weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands, the Polynesian (1840–48). During the 1850s, Jarves relocated to Florence, Italy where he served as the U.S. vice-consul and collected art. After other American museums refused to buy Jarves' collection, Yale University granted him a ...

Harper & Brothers. Art Dept.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p33ntt (corporateBody)