A Guide to the John Addington Symonds Photograph Symonds, John Addington. 10547-t

A Guide to the John Addington Symonds Photograph

A Collection in the
Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History
Accession number 10547-t


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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
10547-t
Title
John Addington Symonds Photograph 1886
Extent
1 item
Collector
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

John Addington Symonds Photograph, Accession 10547-t, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This photograph was transferred to the Manuscripts Division of the Library from the Rare Books Division on August 11, 1992, through Kathryn Morgan, Curator of Rare Books.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of a black & white photograph, 1886, of British scholar John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), taken by Walter L. [Colls ?] and used as the frontispiece for John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled From His Papers and Correspondence by Horatio Brown, published by J.C. Nimmo, 1895, in London.

Symonds was best known for his History of the Renaissance in Italy but also translated the Greek poets and the Renaissance poets, and wrote verse and literary criticism.

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

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