Westmacott, Richard, 1799–1872, Richard Westmacott letter to Richard Redgrave, 1870 [?] May 9
- Call Number:
- MSS 22
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Westmacott, Richard, 1799–1872
- Title(s):
- Richard Westmacott letter to Richard Redgrave
- Date:
- 1870 [?] May 9
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 2, folder 128
- 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:
- "Private. Dear Redgrave, I have only heard this morning - in a note from Grant - that a Govmt meeting was held - I had no notice of it! - I want to know whether any opportunity was afforded you for ventilating your proposal on the constitution of the Council - for tho' it seems the object of the 'call' was special, possibly other matters were talked of - 'entre nous', maybe there is some very [...] & exceptional cause for [...] these hurried & [...] for meetings for [...] rather than [...] measures may be very dangerous - & lead to abuse - some of us old ones must see to it. I cannot, from the slight information I have, trust there was [...]. Yours very truly, Rich Westmacott."
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (2 pages) : 1 autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11cm
- 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/3450241
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3450241?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1