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Call Number:
MSS 22
Creator:
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
Title(s):
John Callcott Horsley letter to Richard Redgrave
Date:
1873 March 2
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 there was much left unsaid at the last General Meeting. He bemoans the "absurdity" at having only one painter and two architects represented in the "selection of artistic worthies" placed within the "niches." He suggests adding in "Turner or[? possibly &] Hogarth." Horsely also appears to take issue with the sculptor[s] chosen for the commission. Horsely writes that the following was freely admitted at the meeting: "the increase of members on the Council is a mistake," "ditto of hangers ditto." Horsely has inserted a small sheet with a postscript. It reads, "I have not seen half enough of the Old Master Exh - If in consequence of 19th century bigotry (!!) an academician is disbarred from entering the rooms of his own academical mansion[?] on Sunday afternoons can you tell me whether he may be permitted to do so early on Monday the 10th before the removing process is advanced?"
Additional Notes:
Printed letterhead: Willesley Cranbrook
Physical Description:
2 sheets (6 pages) : 1 autograph letter, signed ; sheet one: 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 11.5 cm; sheet two: 8 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/3450042
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450042?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1