Research Catalog

Title

John Butler Yeats letter with sketch to John Quinn : autograph manuscript signed.

Author

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922

Publication

[New York, New York?], 1921 April 7.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

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Details

Additional Authors

Quinn, John, 1870-1924

Description

1 item (2 pages on 1 leaf) : illustration (drawing) ; 28 x 21 cm

Summary

John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) was an Irish portrait painter and the father of the poet William Butler Yeats and the painter Jack Butler Yeats. John Quinn (1870-1924) was a corporation lawyer in New York City, and a noted private collector and patron of the arts. Yeats visited New York City in December 1907, remaining there, with Quinn's assistance, until his death in 1922. The item, written and drawn in pen and ink, is a brief autograph letter signed J.B. Yeats to "My dear Quinn," describing the large sketch drawn above as "my reminiscence of last night's dinner - you are not very like, but the other two are not bad." From left to right, the dinner circle consists of Yeats, Quinn and a woman, showing the back of a man in the foreground, with a man's profile to the side crossed out. An additional small self-portrait is drawn below his signature and the date. What appear to be four lines of verse on the other side are also crossed out.

Subject

• Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922 > Correspondence
• Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922 > Friends and associates
• Artists > Ireland > Correspondence

Genre/Form

• Letters (correspondence)
• Sketches.

Note

• John Quinn's office stamp (John Quinn 31 Nassau St. New York) marking receipt on April 8, 1921, appears at top.

Access (note)

• Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Source (note)

• Purchased, 2022.

Provenance (note)

• Ownership by descent from Julia Quinn Anderson, sister and heir of John Quinn.

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS 186162

OCLC

1345478189

Author

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922, creator.

Title

John Butler Yeats letter with sketch to John Quinn : autograph manuscript signed.

Production

[New York, New York?], 1921 April 7.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Provenance

Ownership by descent from Julia Quinn Anderson, sister and heir of John Quinn.

Source

Purchased, 2022.

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Occupation

Artists.

Art patrons.

Added Author

Quinn, John, 1870-1924, correspondent.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS 186162