Artists at a banquet for Harry Siddons Mowbray, 1888 May 26
Physical Details: Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 14 x 21 cm.
Creator: unidentified photographer
Description: Photo shows a group of Mowbray's friends in evening dress seated and standing around a long table, many who appear to be singing.
Identification on verso (handwritten): "Banquet to H. Siddons Mowbray Esq. by his friends at Sieghortners Hotel, Lafayette Place, New York City, on May 26, 1888; left to right standing: Wm. M. Chase, J. Carroll Beckwith, R.W. Van Boskerck & Wm. A. Coffin; seated: Reginald C. Coxe, Thomas B. Clarke, Augustus St. Gaudens, J. Alden Weir, and T.W. Dewing, Isham, (Kenyon Cox with paper cap); others present but not in this print: H. Siddons Mowbray, Stanford White, Valentine Blacque, S.V. Allen, H.O. Walker, Jonas Webb, [name illegible] Wells, Kingsley, Rice, Denman and Walton."
Published in: Archives of American Art Journal, v. 25, no. 4, p. 8.
Provenance unknown. Annotation on verso possibly in the hand of Robert McIntyre, nephew of William Macbeth and proprieter of the Macbeth Gallery. It is possible that this photograph was originally part of the Macbeth Gallery records.
Forms part of: Miscellaneous photographs collection,
Rights Statement: U.S. public domain
Citation: Artists at a banquet for Harry Siddons Mowbray, 1888 May 26
Digital ID: 2644
Subjects:
- Artists in groups
- Beckwith, J. Carroll (James Carroll)
- Celebrations
- Chase, William Merritt
- Clarke, Thomas B. (Thomas Benedict)
- Coffin, William A. (William Anderson)
- Cox, Kenyon
- Coxe, R. Cleveland (Reginald Cleveland)
- Dewing, Thomas Wilmer
- Isham, Samuel
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
- Van Boskerck, Robert Ward
- Weir, Julian Alden
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