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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:
Artists
Etchers
Painters
Painting
Women painters
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863
Cooke, Edward William, 1811-1880
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865
Etching Club (London, England)
Exposition universelle de Paris en 1855
Faed, Thomas, 1825-1900
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909
Gilbert, John, 1817-1897
Goodall, Edward A.
Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894
Holl, Francis, 1815-1884
Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888
Knight, John Prescott, 1803-1881
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896
Lewis, Charles George, 1808-1880
Linnell, William
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870
Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896
O'Neill, Henry, 1798-1880
Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919
Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888
Richmond, George, 1809-1896
Roberts, David, 1796-1864
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890
Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877
Stanfield, George Clarkson
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
Westmacott, 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