Diaries, 1871-1882.

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Diaries, 1871-1882.

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Diaries, 1871-1882, document Avery's annual art-buying trips to Europe. They indicate purchases, commissions, sales and exchanges, including prices. Travel routes, ships, railroads, hotels and restaurants are noted, as are sights seen, chiefly art exhibitions, museums and art galleries. A running record of accounts is kept in the back of each volume, written back to front with the notebook held upside down. Among the contemporary artists, dealers, agents and collectors with whom Avery had contact are: William Agnew, W.A. Bouguereau, Colnaghi, R.W. De Forest, Durand-Ruel, Duveen Bros., J.L. Gérôme, Goupil & Co., J.T. Johnston, J.L.E. Meissonier, A.F.E. Menzel, J.P. Morgan, W.T. Richards, L.C. Tiffany, W.H. Vanderbilt, W.T. Walters, and J.A.M. Whistler.

5 v. : bound in leather ; 18 cm.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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