[Metropolitan Museum of Art: Autographs of J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry G. Marquand and other Luminaries and Officers and Leading Benefactors to the Museum].

Men (and One Woman) of the Metropolitan Museum in early 20th-century America

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This album leaf is noted for the sixteen autographs accomplished within hand drawn and embellished borders with the monograms “MMA” (Metropolitan Museum of Art) seen recto and verso.

Recto, the following autographs are seen: Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819–1902), MMA Board President, American financier, and philanthropist; F.W. Rhinelander, Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway president; Daniel Huntington (1816–1906) American painter, New York art scene fixture, MMA vice-president; Wm. L. Andrews; Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904), First Director of the MMA, Italian-American soldier, diplomat, amateur archaeologist; W.E. Dodge;  a J.H. or T.H. Wales; Helen R. Bishop[?]; Darius Ogden Mills (1825-1910), banker and mining and railroad entrepreneur;  Samuel Putnam Avery, (1822-1904), wood engraver, art dealer, and rare book and print collector; John Stewart Kennedy (1830–1909) Scottish-born American businessman, financier, philanthropist; Edward Dean Adams (1846–1931), banker, engineer, and financier, and Chas. Stewart Frick [sic?].   

Verso: Robert W. (Weeks) De Forest, (1848-1931), Art Dealer and Collector, J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), a good solid autograph by this industrial titan, and a John Crosby Brown, MMA treasurer at one point.

A coterie of art dealers, collectors, bankers, financiers, and entrepreneurs.

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