Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Shannon, Charles Hazelwood, 1863-1937
- Abstract:
- Correspondence of British lithographer and painter Charles Hazelwood Shannon to Harold Chaloner Dowdall and Mary Frances Dowdall.
- Extent:
- 41 pieces
- Language:
- The records are in English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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Letters from Charles Hazelwood Shannon to Harold Chaloner Dowdall, his mother, and wife, Mary Frances Borthwick Dowdall, concerning the arrangements for portrait sittings and exhibitions of their portraits. The collection includes two pencil sketches.
- Biographical / historical:
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Charles Hazelwood Shannon, British lithographer and painter, worked in close collaboration with Charles Ricketts. One of Shannon's best-known oil paintings is the portrait of the writer Mary Frances Borthwick Dowdall, wife of Harold Chaloner Dowdall, judge and mayor of Liverpool.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased from Sotheby's, Lot 615, July 1973.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged chronologically. It is housed in one box.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191