Mariano Fortuny birthday dinner menu
odd: label: General
content: Note in purple ink on top left of cover reads "June 9th 1838" (Fortuny's birthday as according to Robert Blum, one of the organizers of the event). A drawing of a sailor is underneath.
label: General
content: The remainder of the cover reads "Menu of ye 7 painter fellers & one literary cuss on ye good ship Pennland, June 9th, 1882."
label: General
content: Back of menu has a row of signatures in pencil: F.H. Lungren; Robt. Blum; A.A. Anderson; [illegible, possibly Mr. Sevy?]; Carroll Beckwith; Fred P. Vinton; C.C. Buel; Arthur Quartley. Beneath signatures is a drawing of a palette with the word "Fortuny" on it.
name: label: Creator
content: Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903
label: Names
content: Anderson, A. A. (Abraham Archibald), 1847-1940
label: Names
content: Beckwith, J. Carroll (James Carroll), 1852-1917
label: Names
content: Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903
label: Names
content: Buel, Clarence Clough, 1850-1933
label: Names
content: Fortuny, Mariano, 1838-1874
label: Names
content: Lungren, Fernand, 1857-1932
label: Names
content: Quartley, Arthur, 1839-1886
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content: Vinton, Frederick Porter, 1846-1911
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance unknown, possibly from the papers of Robert Blum.
creator: label: Creator
content: Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mariano Fortuny was a prominent 19th century painter and influenced the work of many younger artists of the late 19th century studying in Europe.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (24 x 18 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1882 June 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blumrobe1
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Item has been digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A handwritten and illustrated menu for a dinner held by a group of traveling American artists in honor of what would have been the 44th birthday of Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny (Fortuny died 8 years prior).