George Loring Brown account book
name: label: Creator
content: Brown, George Loring, 1814-1889
topic: label: Occupation
content: Landscape painters
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Italy -- Rome
label: Topic
content: Painting -- Italy -- Rome
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1993 by the William Morris Hunt Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
creator: label: Creator
content: Brown, George Loring, 1814-1889
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Landscape, portrait and miniature painter, lithographer, etcher and wood engraver. Married for the second time to Louise Bressard, 1848. Studied in Rome from 1853-1855, and did a series of etchings of views of Rome in 1860.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume ((32 p. on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1851-1859
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.browglab
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4599 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William Morris Hunt Library Boston, Mass.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Account book recording Brown's commissions, sales of work, and expenses, while in Rome, and including transactions with a banking company, and a record of money given to his wife, Louise, for her expenses. Some entries are in French. Miscellaneous notes are written on the inside of the front cover, including several about the activities of "Madame Brossard" and a note about a commission for a tableau. Two calling cards are also attached. The first page is inscribed "George L. Brown, Rome 1851," and contains handwritten notations and a paragraph, dated May 12, 1854, about the "modus operandi" of M. Pendleton's picture of the aquaducts.