Private memorandum / Thomas Sully
name: label: Creator
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- United States -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming in 1991 by the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1837-1859
label: Date
content: bulk 1837-1839
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sullthopm
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 4565 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original in: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Leatherbound manuscript, "Private Memorandum," including hints to painters interspersed with Sully's memoirs, quotations from letters, and other writings mostly concerning portrait painting techniques, such as preparation of canvas, mediums, varnishes, and the arrangement of colors on a palette. The main body of the volume was written between 1837 and 1839. At the end are three brief entries dated 1851 no month, 1858 Feb. 4, and 1859 Sept. 21.