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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Elizabeth Eastlake Letters #11017-z, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Blackwell's in Oxford, England, in February 1976.

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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, May 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, August 2020

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Art museums--England--History--19th century.
• Artists--England--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Boxall, William, Sir, 1800-1879.
• Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865.
• Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893.
• Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893. Five great painters.
• National Gallery (Great Britain)

Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake was an English essayist and translator, who published "Five Great Painters" (1883) and other works. Her husband was Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865), director of the National Gallery, 1855-1865.

The collection contains frequent brief, personal letters, primarily 1867 and 1868, from Elizabeth Eastlake to Sir William Boxall concerning the interment of and monument to her husband; disposition of his library and private art collection, some of which went to the National Gallery; a handwritten guide to the National Gallery by Elizabeth Eastlake that an employee of Boxall's was transcribing; other writings by Lady Eastlake; and mutual friends and happenings in the art world, especially affairs at the National Gallery.

• Microfilm (M-11017/1)