(American/England, 1843-1904)
Mostly portraits, a palm, after paintings, most signed in pencil "T. Johnson", includes: Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Cullen Bryant, President McKinley, inscribed "only signed state 2nd state", Beverly Chew, Head of Aesop, Prince Balthazar Carlos after Velasquez, Mme. de Motteville, after a painting in the Louvre, a palm, Edvard Grieg, Amos R. Eno, John Greenleaf Whittier, inscribed "The only proof of this taken/plate destroyed", Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Robert E. Lee Wood, General Joseph Wheeler Wood, Dorothy after John Singer Sargent, Sarah Siddons, E. C. Stedman, and others, largest sheet 13-3/4 x 10-1/2 in., smallest 6-3/4 x 4-1/4 in. ; unframed
Provenance: Gift of Cornelia E. and Jennie A. Donnellon, Gift of Spencer Bickerton, Gift of George J. Beyer; Property from the Brooklyn Museum
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Gift of Cornelia E. and Jennie A. Donnellon, Gift of Spencer Bickerton, Gift of George J. Beyer; Property from the Brooklyn Museum
some on mounts with mat, hinged in or loose, various creases, some with tears, smudging, most with pencil inscriptions, some toning, "General Wood" creased, torn corners upper right, upper left, and lower right, glued to mat upper left
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