Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877, Sydney Smirke letter to Richard Redgrave, 1870 March 12
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Creator:
- Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
- Title(s):
- Sydney Smirke letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1870 March 12
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 107
- 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:
- Smirke would like to obtain two pictures for the Great Dining Hall at the Inner Temple, which he has been renovating. He thinks "nothing [would be] so appropriate as two large whole length portraits of -say- the Queen on one side & Elizabeth on the other whose reign was coeval with the establishment of the Inner Temple as distinct from the Middle Temple." Smirke would like to know which pictures of Victoria and Elizabeth would be the most suitable to make copies from. In a postscript, Smirke notes that the other side of the hall is "occupied by Royal[?] worthies - to say nothing of a sprawling Thornhill, of Pegasus, muses, etc. etc." A note added by Redgrave reads, "[...] Plenty of Winterhalters could name a copyist about 50 £ each."
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from: Grosvenor St.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 20 x 26 cm folded to 20 x 13 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/3450170
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450170?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1