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Call Number:
MSS 22
Creator:
Bell, John, 1811-1895
Title(s):
John Bell letter to Richard Redgrave
Date:
1864 March 2
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 9
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 Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
This long letter concerns a matter of artistic similarity. Cole has informed Bell that Redgrave and Cole have discovered a "child of [his] among the art union sculpture (in Imogen)." [Meaning a work similar to his own.] Bell writes that he "trust[s] [Redgrave] will think so and not that I kidnapped her as 'we see where she comes from'?" Bell asks Redgrave for time to consult the engraving to see "how little likeness exists" and ultimately hopes that Redgrave will be forgiving "especially as you know what thieves we all are."
Additional Notes:
Addressed from: […] Place
Physical Description:
1 sheet (4 page) : autograph letter, signed ; 18.5 x 22.5 cm folded to 18.5x 11.25
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Artists
Etchers
Painters
Painting
Women painters
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863
Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865
Etching Club (London, England)
Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855
Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897
Goodall, Edward A.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894
Holl, Francis, 1815-1884
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880
Linnell, William
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896
O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880
Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888
Richmond, George, 1809-1896
Roberts, David, 1796-1864
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890
Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
Stanfield, George Clarkson
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
Westmacott, Richard, 1799-1872
Finding Aid Title:
Letters to Richard Redgrave
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449855
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449855?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1