Memoirs of the baths of Diocletian : or memoirs of a southern veteran / by Moses Jacob Ezekiel, undated. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Ezekiel, Moses Jacob, 1844-1917 -- Photographs Search this
Extent:
51 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
[ca. 1910]
Scope and Contents:
Included are 49 photographs of Ezekiel's sculpture, some of them showing his studio in Rome, and two photographs of Ezekiel himself, seated.
Biographical / Historical:
Sculptor; Rome, Italy.
Provenance:
Photographs lent for copying by Virginia Volterra, via AAA's Rome collector, Regina Soria.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Papers collected by McClelland concerning the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Renwick Gallery including: letters from Moses Ezekiel to Dr. William McLeod, George Riggs, and William W. Corcoran, 1877-1883; a letter from James Renwick to Dr. William MacLeod [sic], and one to Corcoran, 1881; clippings and printed material concerning Ezekiel, Corcoran, Renwick, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art; correspondence regarding the John Howard Payne Monument at Tunis, l885; and photos of the Corcoran Mansion and grounds.
Biographical / Historical:
Art historian, Washington, D.C. On staff of Registrar's Office the National Collection of Fine Arts, renamed the National Museum of American Art.
Provenance:
Donated by Donald McClelland, who had the items copied from the Corcoran Gallery, D.C. Historical Society, and possibly other sources.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Sculptor, Rome, Italy. Born in Richmond, Va., of a Sephardic Jewish family, Ezekiel was educated at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Fought with the Confederates in the Civil War. In 1869, he went to Berlin to study at the Royal Art Academy, and he met with great success, winning a prize that allowed him to study in Rome, where he resided permanently. His studio in Rome was in the Diocletian baths.
Provenance:
Donated by Joseph Gutmann, an Art History professor at Wayne State University, who published an edited version of the memoirs in 1975. The photocopy was discarded after microfilming.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
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