Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896, Frederic Leighton letter to Richard Redgrave, 1880 May
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
- Title(s):
- Frederic Leighton letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1880 May
- 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:
- Marked private. "Dear Redgrave, thank you for your letter. I fancy that altho' you speak of the Private View to which […] were sent, and always are sent to […] Philip […] I meant to speak of the Banquet - I will say, in […] that Scharf's[?] invitation is of course only an incident - not a practice - never [...] I have no hesitation in saying that in my private opinion [...] should be able regularly to attend if at least [...] Artistic Dept- that[?] [...] real claim for [...] invitations, the qualifications [...] substitute a claim for a occasional invitation - it is my intention to try & place him on the official list; but I [...] that the president has not always his own way. Believe me dear Redgrave, yours [...] Fred Leight." [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/3450097
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450097?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1