Sketches for portraits of Patrick Henry and John Marshall,with reference file [manuscript], n.d.

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Sketches for portraits of Patrick Henry and John Marshall,with reference file [manuscript], n.d.

Includes correspondence, ca. 1957, with Norrine Campbell, concerning commissions for a portrait of Patrick Henry; printed ephemera (pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and magazine clippings) of images of Pocahontas, Dolley Madison, Henry Clay and his birthplace Red Hill, and Norborne Berkeley; and pencil sketches for portraits of Patrick Henry and John Marshall.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7923445

University of Virginia. Library

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Van Jost, Alexander.

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Campbell, Norrine,

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