Selected letters from the Frank M. Etting Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Etting, Frank M. (Frank Marx)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955. Selected for microfilming by Frances Lichten.
creator: label: Creator
content: Etting, Frank M. (Frank Marx)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Reels (ca. 100 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1767-1889
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ettifran
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel P20 (fr. 602-605; 631) and P21 (fr. 43-112) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Frank M. Etting Collection.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm inventory listing dates and recipients of the letters is available at all Archives of American Art offices (filed under Etting).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Primarily artists' letters from the autograph section of the Etting collection, as well as 30 letters to Etting from artists or concerning art related matters. Letters to Etting are dated 1854-1889, from James R. Lambdin, Catherine A. Drinker, Edward D. Marchant, Edward Lamson Henry, William C. Sanders, Anna M. Lea, J.J. Sawyer, William B. Myers, George C. Lambdin, Peter F. Rothermel, Frank B. Mayer, and William A. Coffin. Items from the autograph section include: a receipt from Thomas Birch to Mr. Shippen, Nov. 7, 1811; letters to Robert Gilmore from William Dunlap, George Catlin, Henry Inman, John Gadsby Chapman, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, Horatio Greenough, George Harvey and William Sidney Mount;
label: Scope and Contents
content: letters to Henry A. Wise from John Gadsby Chapman, Ferdinand Pettrich, and L. Walk; to G.C. Childs from William Kneass, John Neagle, and John Sully; and to Ben. Perley Poore from J.W. Osborne and Henry Stone. Additional items include letters of Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, Charles Fraser, Alexander Galt, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Joseph Jefferson, Charles Robert Leslie, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Sully, John Trumbull (to Sully), and Benjamin West; and a list of subscribers to procure a full-length painting by Thomas Sully of LaFayette for Independence Hall.