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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:
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/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