Hervey, Frederick Augustus, 1730–1803, Letter to Alexander Day, 1798 (?) October 31
- Call Number:
- MSS 10
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Hervey, Frederick Augustus, 1730–1803
- Title(s):
- Letter to Alexander Day.
- Date:
- 1798 (?) October 31
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- 3-21[b]
- Provenance:
- Paul Mellon Fund, June 2006.
- 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:
- With plan of his galleries, one for pictures and the other for statues, also mentioning that "Here I have found a real treasure - tis a Milanese who in stucco imitates all marbles so perfectly as to deceive both the sight and the touch - he has properly succeeded at Sans Souci'. Berlin, 31 October.
- Physical Description:
- 1 page ; 23 x 19 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence , Portraits, Engravings (prints), Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance), and Letters
- Subject Terms:
- ArtistsCollectors and collectingSculptorsSculptureWills
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Day, Alexander, 1745-1841
- Finding Aid Title:
- Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/3.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/859
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/859?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1