Selected art related documents from the Woodhouse collection in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
name: label: Names
content: Artists' Fund Society
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Meredith, William M. (William Morris), 1799-1873
label: Names
content: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items ((on 6 fr. of microfilm))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [1817-1843 and undated]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.histsocp
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel P24 (frames 94-100) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Woodhouse Collection.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An invitation to William Meredith for the eighth annual exhibition of the Artists' Fund Society "Private View," Apr. 3, 1843; circular letters, Mar. 13, 1834 and Oct. 1834, concerning the finances of the Pennsylvania Academy and the durability of the members. The first letter is signed by Joseph Hopkinson and the second by William Strickland, Henry Inman, Charles Graff, Cephas G. Childs, J. K. Kane, and Nathan Dunn. Also, correspondence between David Hosack and William Meredith, Jan. 12 and 18, 1817, about Thomas Sully's portrait of Gouverneur Morris; and a letter to Nicholas Biddle from Rembrandt Peale, concerning a portrait of Mr. Dennie and a copy for Biddle, with a note by Biddle at the bottom of the page.