Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney papers relating to Seth Wells Cheney and John Cheney
name: label: Creator
content: Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, 1824-1904
label: Names
content: Cheney, John, 1801-1885
label: Names
content: Cheney, Seth Wells, 1810-1856
label: Names
content: Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
label: Names
content: Koehler, S. R. (Sylvester Rosa), 1837-1900
label: Names
content: Lowell, Anna C. (Anna Cabot), 1811-1874
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians
label: Occupation
content: Biographers -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Engravers -- Connecticut
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Connnecticut
label: Topic
content: Cataloging of engravings
label: Topic
content: Engraving -- 19th century -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Engraving -- American -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Phrenology -- Case studies -- Connecticut
label: Topic
content: Women authors
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1960 by Alice Williams (married to Corcoran Gallery of Art director Hermann Warner Williams, Jr.), who inherited the Cheney's studio remains.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, 1824-1904
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Seth Wells Cheney was an engraver, as was his brother John Cheney, of Manchester, Connecticut. Ednah Cheney wrote Memoirs of Seth Wells Cheney, 1881, and Memoirs of John Cheney, 1889.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 125 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1848-1897
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chenedna
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 284 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers gathered by Ednah Cheney, wife of Seth Wells Cheney, for her memoirs of the two brothers, Seth and John Cheney, prominent 19th century engravers, composed of correspondence, clippings, notes, lists, a diary, and family photographs.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are 89 letters to Ednah Dow Cheney, 1873-1897, most from authorities on engraving, chiefly, Sylvester Rosa Koehler and Charles Henry Hart concerning the location and identification of engravings pursuant to compilation of a Cheney catalog; a letter describing an 1892 meeting of the National Suffrage Association; 2 lists of casts for a sculpture collection; a diary, August 1848, kept by Anna Cabot Lowell during Seth Cheney's stay while executing family portraits, describing his activities and character; a phrenological study of Cheney; 33 family photographs and daguerrotypes of John Cheney's drawings (not microfilmed); and miscellany.