MacCallum, Andrew, 1821-1902, Andrew MacCallum letter to Richard Redgrave, 1853 [?] September 22
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- MacCallum, Andrew, 1821-1902
- Title(s):
- Andrew MacCallum letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1853 [?] September 22
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 79
- 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:
- McCallum asks Redgrave to look at an enclosed tracing [not present]. He mentions that its purpose is "to bring a […] of changes of treatment upon, so […] after going through the chromatic scale, it may serve as a kind of reference library." McCallum writes that he has been in Wales and painted a picture there. He writes that his subject has been difficult and that he has tried to "act on [Redgrave's] advice, I have gone to nature with singleness of heart - I feel how much stronger I should have been if I had ever done so...."
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from Stourbridge
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 11.5 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
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450106
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450106?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1