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Call Number:
MSS 53
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Aitken, Charles, 1869-1936
Title(s):
Charles Aitken letter to D. Hewitt
Date:
1914 January 15
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 25
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Scope and Content:
"January 15, 1914. Dear Mr Hewitt, I am so much indebted to you for your kindness in sending me this valuable list. I want to see Lewis better represented here and shall try to array a little exhibition rather with a view to the Trustees being able to see his work. Mr Horton of Birmingham [i.e., Joseph Horton, d. 1927] has a good big [?] scale one "In the Harem" but he has rather an exaggerated idea of its market price. Sir Cuthbert Quilter had a good one but I do not know at present what became of it. With renewed thanks, I am yours very truly, Charles Aitken."
Additional Notes:
With blind-embossed letterhead: National Gallery, British Art, Millbank, S.W.; and blind-embossed seal.
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 24 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence and Exhibitions
Subject Terms:
Antiquities
Art
Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876. Harem
Orientalism
Painters
Painting
Photography
Prices
Sculptors
Sculpture
Associated Places:
Egypt
France
Great Britain
Hayes (Bromley, London, England)
Paris
Associated People/Groups:
Aitken, Charles, 1869-1936
Hewitt, D.
Horton, Joseph, -1927
Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876
Quilter, Cuthbert, Sir, 1841-1911
Tate Gallery
Finding Aid Title:
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/10701.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629916
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629916?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1