Venable, John W.
Miniature painter
Size: 1 Volume, (on partial microfilm reel)
Summary: A journal including an account of Venable's travels through Virginia and Maryland seeking work as a miniaturist portrait painter, penciled drafts of three letters, a list of Latin and French phrases translated into English, and poetry. Three newspaper clippings are also included.
Miniaturist.
Lent for microfilming 1978 by Marchand's Antiques, Evansville, Ind., through Kenneth P. McCutchan.
English .
35mm microfilm reel 1321 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
John W. Venable journal, 1840-1842. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
