Claudia Hill collection pertaining to Harriet Blake's sketchbook of the grand tour of Europe [graphic]. ca. 1890-ca. 1995, bulk ca. 1890.

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Claudia Hill collection pertaining to Harriet Blake's sketchbook of the grand tour of Europe [graphic]. ca. 1890-ca. 1995, bulk ca. 1890.

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Sketchbook contains ca. 75 pages of pencil sketches and watercolors done by Blake at various locations along her grand tour of Europe in 1890. Sketches depict scenery in Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. Watercolor paintings by Blake depict unidentified landscapes and buildings. Also includes correspondence, a notebook, 3 photographic prints, and other research papers collected by Claudia Hill pertaining to her 1995 published article on Blake's sketchbook: "Sites abroad: picture postcards and a late nineteenth century woman's sketchbook of the Grand Tour". (Photocopy of this article included among research papers.)

1 box (1 sketchbook, 5 paintings, 3 photographic prints, 1 notebook, and reasearch papers), 1 oversize folder (5 paintings on 4 sheets) and 6 negatives : color and b&w ; various sizes.

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Hill, Claudia

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Claudia Hill was born in New Haven, Conn., on December 6, 1960. She received a B.A. from Colgate University (1982), an M.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago (1990), and an M.L.S. from SUNY Albany (1996). She worked at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University in 1985, held a National Endowment for the Arts Curatorial Internship at the Williams College Museum of Art from 1992 to 1993, and served as an Editor for the J. Paul Getty Trust's Art and Architecture Thesaurus from 1993 to 1996. ...

Blake, Harriet Cummings, 1859-1918

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Harriet Blake, of Andover, Massachusetts, was an aunt of San Francisco poet Anna Blake Mezquida. From the description of Claudia Hill collection pertaining to Harriet Blake's sketchbook of the grand tour of Europe [graphic]. ca. 1890-ca. 1995, bulk ca. 1890. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 491366780 ...