George Bowden letters
name: label: Creator
content: Bowden, George, b. ca. 1826
label: Names
content: Robertson, John Roy, fl. 1857-69
label: Names
content: Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in 1971 via Wilford C. Cole.
creator: label: Creator
content: Bowden, George, b. ca. 1826
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: George Bowden (b. circa 1826) was an artists' supplier in London.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1864-1868
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bowdgeor
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Typewritten transcripts of four letters sent to artist's stationer George Bowden. Three are from the artist John R. Robertson, and are dated: Oct. 25, 1864; Feb. 28, 1865; and Dec. 2, 1868; and are sent from Paris, London, and New York. The fourth is a letter from John McDouall Stuart to George Bowden, dated Oct. 11 '64. Also includes transcript of a contract of Aug. 11, 1864 between Robertson and Bowden pertaining to an exhibition by Bowden of Robertson's paintings.