Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896, Frederic Leighton letter to Richard Redgrave, 1875
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
- Title(s):
- Frederic Leighton letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1875
- 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, the Queen lends 27 pictures /all the corridor ones/ but none of the largest, alas! and alas!/ except […] by Queen back to the[?] Duke of Cumberland- could you […] there is a picture here I fancy you want but which is […] as it has in this luscious light you would be the very [...] It is called "A Lay Cardinal"[?] and is attributed to Rembrandt. - it is really not a work you could [...] over walls and we should feel very grateful if you could measure[?] the room [...] for us - will you? I am often amazed when I see my own [...] in this tremendous light. Yours half[?] dear, sincerely, Fred. Leight." [Significant portions of letter illegible to cataloger.]
- Additional Notes:
- Embossed letterhead: The Athenaeum.
- 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/3450095
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450095?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1