Anson Dickinson sketchbook and sketches
name: label: Creator
content: Dickinson, Anson, 1779-1852
topic: label: Occupation
content: Miniature painters
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Miniature painting -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Anson Dickinson sketches and sketchbook were lent in addition to the Adelaide Deming letters, described separately.
creator: label: Creator
content: Dickinson, Anson, 1779-1852
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anson Dickinson was a miniature painter born in Milton, Conn., near Litchfield.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca.1800-1806]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dickanso
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 865(frames 28-82) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the Litchfield Historical Society after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 76-page sketchbook of Anson Dickinson, 1806, containing pencil sketches and drawings of human figures, some done from life, finished drawings for engravings, and two pages of text by Dickinson on rules of portraiture. In addition, there is a pencil sketch of the "David Catlin House, Milton, Ct." and on the verso a sketch "Below the Dam, Milton, Ct." Both are by Dicknson, ca. 1800.