Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Charles Hazelwood Shannon correspondence
- Dates:
- 1898-1904
- 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 .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Charles Hazelwood Shannon correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2015
- Date Encoded:
- Machine readable finding aid encoded by Brooke M. Black in June 2015
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, please go to following web site.
- Terms of access:
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Charles Hazelwood Shannon correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191