Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903, John Callcott Horsley letter to Richard Redgrave, 1867 February 4
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
- Title(s):
- John Callcott Horsley letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1867 February 4
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 65
- 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:
- Horsely writes that his "wife is not much of an autograph collector," and that she "limits her exertions in that line to the artistic fraternity." Horsely has sent Redgrave a "note of Linnell's" from her collection as "you [Redgrave] wish." Horsely has a series of questions relating to Della Robbia. First, he wants to know if the Della Robbia works are terracotta, and, if not, "what material are they?" Horsely also inquires whether there is a more technical term for the Della Robbia reliefs, "plaques?" He also inquires, "Are not most of the works of Della Robbia, Donatello, Pisano, and the like, executed in terra cotta, bronze, or material in which their own handy work is clearly visible--i.e. they were innocent of 'polishing'[?] [...] which makes modern sculpture (or most of it) so abominably uninteresting and inartistic?"
- Additional Notes:
- On mourning stationary. Printed letterhead: Willesley Staplehurst.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (4 pages) : 1 autograph letter, signed ; 17.5 x 22 cm folded to 17.5 x 11 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/3450035
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450035?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1