Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877, Sydney Smirke letter to Richard Redgrave, undated (June 24)
- 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:
- undated (June 24)
- 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:
- Smirke writes to Redgrave about the skylights in the Sheepshanks galleries at the South Kensington Museum. Smirke has observed the current ratio of the skylights to the size of the room and has measured it as "528: 1273." Smirke states that "these rooms are the last built at South Kensington, & therefore may be presumed to be the result of latest experiments." Smirke writes that he has made notes of lighting conditions in "many of the picture galleries in Europe" but acknowledges that lighting in such cases is conditional on the atmosphere. He is therefore "anxious to arrive at the result of London proportions." A postscript adds, "The north room at the RA is the best lighted of the whole building. The area of skylight (after deducting the solid parts) is to the area of that whole room as 261: 1050 -!"
- Additional Notes:
- Addressed from: Grosvenor Street
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (4 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/3450179
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450179?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1