Thomas Unwin letter to Richard Redgrave, 1853 December 12
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Title(s):
- Thomas Unwin letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1853 December 12
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 118
- 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:
- “Dear Redgrave, On my remonstrating with the powers that be on the outrageous & disastrous attack on the arts of the country in contemplation at Marlborough House I was referred by my Lord Montagu[?] to you – By his authority then I do most earnestly request of you to tell me where the space is in which you will put the English pictures – you know that not one can go into the Vernon Gallery – the government are bound by the will to keep Mr Vernon’s pictures separate and as there is not a foot of space in Trafalgar Square, where on Earth they are to be put I know not! Your opinion seems to have been acted upon and I call on you to enlighten me – I have told Lord Aberdeen that it is most extraordinary that the School of Design people should be consulted without my being asked a word, who am the only person in authority – What would you have said if I had gone and carved your rooms out for the purpose of holding two or three meetings in a year which might be done in any room in any street in London. For myself, my own ruin, absolute ruin is nothing – My feeling is for the rest of the country which are to be trampled upon without ceremony by any body who chooses to come in and destroy. Pray tell me your plan before the meeting – I have not an idea on the subject. Yours ever faithfully, Thos. Unwin.”
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (3 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/3450206
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450206?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1