Overview
Letters to Lady Ottoline Morrell and writings by Maud Cruttwell.
Dates
- Creation: 1899-1913
Creator
- Cruttwell, Maud (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
1 boxThe papers contain the letters written by Maud Cruttwell to Lady Ottoline Morrell, from 1899 to 1913. They also include two texts: a manuscript titled Prato and a typescript titled History of Behaism.
Biographical / Historical
Maud Cruttwell was an English art historian born in Frome in 1859. She lived in Florence and became a friend of Bernard and Mary Berenson, as well as with other members of the Anglo-American comunity in the city. She published books on several Italian artists, among others Luca Signorelli, Mantegna, and Pollaiolo, while she studied extensively Luca and Andrea della Robbia and their successors. She died in Paris in 1939.
Arrangement
Collections arranged in two series: 1. Letters to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 2. Writings
Processing Information
Collection arranged by Ilaria della Monica (2018) and cataloged by Spyros Koulouris (2020).
Creator
- Cruttwell, Maud (Person)
- Title
- Maud Cruttwell papers, 1899-1913: A Finding Aid
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Biblioteca Berenson
- Date
- February 21, 2020
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- ber00032
Repository Details
Part of the Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Repository
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