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Call Number:
MSS 22
Creator:
Danby, Francis, 1793-1861
Title(s):
Francis Danby letter to Richard Redgrave
Date:
1854 December 26
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 24
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:
Danby writes to Redgrave about his painting "Maries at the Tomb of Christ" and its prospects at the Great Paris Exhibition [1855]. Danby states that he "does not flatter [himself] that it would stand as tall in competition with French Art in Design, but its character is rather that of Poetic Landscape than History." Danby states that it is his "utmost ambition to be able to paint in any degree to sustain the Reputation of the British School, in this grand contest of the World of Art." Danby lists "The Deluge," "The Calypso," "The Enchanted Island," "A Wild Sea Shore," "Crossing the Brook," "The Wood Nymphs Song to the Rising Tide," and "The Winter Sunset," as additional paintings which might be sent to Paris.
Additional Notes:
Addressed from: Exmouth
Physical Description:
1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 19 x 23 cm folded to 19 x 11.5 cm
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
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449920
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449920?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1