Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896, Frederic Leighton letter to Richard Redgrave, 1875 November 20
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
- Title(s):
- Frederic Leighton letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1875 November 20
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 76
- 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:
- "Dear Redgrave, I enclose a succinct […] of the […] technical objections raised by the various gentlemen who have partaken against the loan of the […]. I shall feel very much obliged if you would draw from them an explicit statement of your own views and opinions on the subject - that may oppose at least a formidable[?] official battery on[?] the attack made, I show[?] also (this is the main point) the [...] that we deem[?] fraught with great danger. - You will see that most, tho' not all, of the objections could be met by a glass for the exhibition and a true[?] packing care for the journey - [...] In haste and with best thanks, I am dear Redgrave, faithfully yours Fred. Leight." [Significant portions of letter illegible to cataloger.]
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 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/3450094
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450094?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1