Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) Major Catalogs about the Collection

This catalogue contains a list of paintings, tapestries, crystals, jades and furniture which Mrs. Jacobs and other competent persons considered worth of exhibition. The collection is comparatively small. There are a few pictures of the Renaissance and a few of the seventeenth century, but the greater part of the collection belongs to the eighteenth century. The Old Masters particularly appealed to Mrs. Jacobs and she regretted that she could not acquire many whose names are missing. It ought to be said, however, that she never bought a picture or any other object of art for the mere name of the artist; the item had to be beautiful and pleasing to her, regardless of its importance or its author.

With biographical sketches of some of the collectors.

In celebration of Maryland's 350th Anniversary and The Walters Art Gallery Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th Anniversary of its opening as a public museum, The Walters Art Gallery presents ... An exhibtion at The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 18 May - 19 August, 1984... Collectors: Mendes Israel Cohen, The Cone Sisters, William H. Crim, James Teackle Dennis, Charles James Madison Eaton, Thomas Edmondson, Abram Eisenberg, Jacob Epstein, Thomas Footer, The Garrett Family, Robert Gilmor, Jr., John Franklin Goucher, Robert C. Hall, Johns Hopkins, Mary Frick Jacobs, J. Stricker Jenkins, The Lee Collection of "Needwood", Sadie A. May, John W. McCoy, James Howard McHenry, Henry Walters, William Thompson Walters.