Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877, Sydney Smirke letter to Richard Redgrave, 1871 December 28
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877
- Title(s):
- Sydney Smirke letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1871 December 28
- 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:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe 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:
- "My Dear Sir, It was settled at the last Building Committee that I should prepare a report or statement as to our intentions of explaining the nature of the works we propose to carry out. Enclosed I send you a draft of such my statement & shall be glad if you would let me know speedily if you approve of it. I send a similar request to the President & each member of the Builder's Committee. I remain dear Sir, very truly yours, Sydney Smirke. I have shown the draft of my report to Mr. Shaw who fully concurs with it."
- Additional Notes:
- On mourning stationary. Addressed from: Tunbridge Wells.
- 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
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450172
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450172?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1