Danby, Francis, 1793-1861, Francis Danby letter to Richard Redgrave, 1854 December 26
- 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:
- ArtistsEtchersPaintersPaintingWomen painters
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865Etching Club (London, England)Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909Gilbert, John, 1817-1897Goodall, Edward A.Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894Holl, Francis, 1815-1884Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880Linnell, WilliamMaclise, Daniel, 1806-1870Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888Richmond, George, 1809-1896Roberts, David, 1796-1864Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877Stanfield, George ClarksonStreet, George Edmund, 1824-1881Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905Westmacott, 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