P.G. Hamerton letter to Richard Redgrave, 1874 October 23
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Title(s):
- P.G. Hamerton letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1874 October 23
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 51
- 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:
- Hamerton thanks Redgrave for agreeing to contribute observations "on technical matters" to a collection he hopes to publish on the practice of art making. He writes that he is "convinced that there is a great deal of valuable material scattered about in the memories of living artists which would be most precious if gathered together, as I propose, into one focus. It is probable, however, that no artist living knows so much about these matters as you do." Hamerton wants Redgrave to choose one of his works and give "an account of its progress, of colours & mediums used etc." Hamerton also suggests that Redgrave may "remember facts relating to the technical history of pictures by other artists, no longer living." He adds that it "would be a good thing to attach memoranda of this kind as much as possible to pictures in the public collections." Hamerton concludes by stating that "the causes which have led to the premature decay of pictures are so important that whenever any light can be thrown upon them it is desirable that it should be."
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from: […] Auton, […] Loire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 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/3449981
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449981?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1