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Donor

Miss Wolfe

1828–1887 · United States

American donor. Gave to Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Life and work

  1. November 1876
    Telegram from the Met trustees (Roosevelt, Johnston, Potter, Hoe) to Cesnola in London while he held an offer from the British Museum: 'Sum required nearly secured. Miss Wolfe giving $10,000.'

    New YorkMarangou 2000, p. 279

Sources

  1. 1.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  2. 2.Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (Wikidata Q5052103). Online
  3. 3.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.