George Loring Brown sketchbook and engravings and Harriet Pease Brown diary, 1836-1841
Brown, George Loring,
b. 1814
d. 1889
Printmaker, Illustrator
Mass.
Collection size: 3 items.
Collection Summary: A book of pencil and watercolor sketches by George Loring Brown; a diary kept by Mrs. Brown while traveling in Italy with her husband in 1840-1841; and an 1836 issue of PARLEY'S MAGAZINE, New York and Boston, with engravings attributed to George Loring Brown.
Biographical/Historical Note: Landscape, portrait, and miniature painter, lithographer, etcher, and wood engraver; Mass. Married Harriet Pease in 1835. Traveled in Europe, mainly Italy, 1840-1846.
One of the lenders, Robert Scott, is a descendant of Harriet Pease Brown through the Downes family.
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