Tayler, Frederick, 1802–1889, Frederick Tayler letter to Richard Redgrave, 1855 December
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Tayler, Frederick, 1802–1889
- Title(s):
- Frederick Tayler letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1855 December
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 113
- 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:
- Tayler addresses the issues surrounding John Frederick Lewis's election to the Presidency of the Old Water Colour Society and the campaign against Tayler led by Evans of Eton suggesting impropriety in Tayler's conduct as committee member and juror at the Paris Exhibition of 1855. Tayler has been made ill because of the scandal and asks Redgrave to support him. Included in the letter is a letterpress statement from Tayler "in reply to certain charges preferred against him by William Evans of Eton." This letterpress statement, enclosed with the letter, describes Tayler's side of the issue.
- Additional Notes:
- Includes 7-page enclosure of Tayler's response to Evans's accusations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 21 x 26 cm folded to 21 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
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11762.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450194
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450194?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1