Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel2
- Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Names
- Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- Collection Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Place
- Japan
- Sri Lanka
- Paris (France)
- Topic
- Travel
- Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- See more items in
- Charles Lang Freer Papers
- Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 2: Correspondence / 2.1: Charles Lang Freer Correspondence / Hecker, Frank J., Col.
- Extent
- 60 Pages
- Date
- 1894-1895
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.01, File FSA A.01 02.1Hecker.travel2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Letters (correspondence)
- Collection Citation
- Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
- Arrangement
- Organized chronologically.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Letters (correspondence)
- Scope and Contents
- Letter written by Charles Lang Freer to his friend and business associate Frank Hecker (1846-1927) while Freer was traveling in Europe and Asia between September 1894 and August 1895. This was Freer's first travel in Asia, and while he was not purchasing works of fine art in large numbers, the cultural encounters he made during this trip deepened his interest in Asia's artistic heritage. Freer's stops included Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, China and Japan. Freer also stayed in Italy and France, spending time with James McNeill Whistler in Paris.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585218689097-1585218689507-2
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