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Call Number:
MSS 10
Creator:
Twopenny, William, 1797-1873
Title(s):
Letter to John Thomas Smith.
Date:
1828 November 19
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
2-472
Provenance:
Paul Mellon Fund, June 2006.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The 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:
Asking "Can you tell me where the widow of Blake the artist lives?". The writer is presumably to be identified both with the William Twopenny referred to as pupil-master to Charles Winston and the man of this name who was a collector and who was the principal patron of the artist John Wykenham Archer.
Physical Description:
1 page ; 19 x 11.5 cm.
Genre:
Correspondence , Portraits, Engravings (prints), Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance), and Letters
Subject Terms:
Artists
Collectors and collecting
Sculptors
Sculpture
Wills
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Blake, William, 1757-1827
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Finding Aid Title:
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/828
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/828?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1