Manuscripts

Notebook #92

Description: Largely notes on sculptors including notes on John Bacon "GM 1799 II p. 724," obituary and then general biographical materials; notes on Wesley's bust (page 13); note on Wedgwood; note on monument to Sir Henry Henry (?); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; note on Holt (page 28) note on Coade; note on Cibber; note on Gibbons; Westminster Abbey (page 37); RA Exhibits of John Bacon; Notes on visit (date unknown) to Island of Jersey; Jersey sculpture and history of French invasion in 1781; further notes on Bacon (page 51); Wellcome Museum (page 58); Folkington (March 11 1929); West Dean; Eastbourne (great obituary!); Belton Percy; Sheffield. Missing back cover.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1925-1929
Call number: mssEsdaile
Creator: Esdaile, Katharine Ada (1881-1950)

Notebook #90

Manuscripts

Book is reversed at beginning – numbering from back. All in pencil and much indecipherable. Volume is apparently a series of notes with little of places or monuments. Notes on Danish Academy; Hoxne (page 15) BOOK REVERSES TO FRONT OF BOOK; Notes on Charles Frederick Stanley, Sarah Jennings, Otto Krobbe (?). The Jennings Family: BOOK REVERSES. Note (typescript) on John Abel (page 27); notes indecipherable; BLANK PAGES; note on 'The Patys (?) of Bristol (page 36); BLANK PAGES; notes on monuments? (page 45); Kirtlington Library; Compton Place; Fredensborg (page 56); Statton Park; BI (?) & RA (page 66); Talman (page 71); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; Wapping (Church?) (page 74) Old Church; BLANK PAGES; notes on sculpture? (page 93); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; notes on Talman (page 101); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; 'Album of Drawings by or belonging to John Talman' (page 111); BLANK PAGES; BOOK REVERSES; Note (page 116) BOOK REVERSES; notes on monuments; Leyton (page 128); BOOK REVERSES; BLANK PAGES; Compton Tichbone (?) (page 135) "Drawings of the Great Leve" – Jenland/Tenland (page 107); BOOK REVERSES 'Potters & Porcelain' - Hannover (page 145).

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Notebook #43

Manuscripts

Address Book with pencil entries, some in alphabetical order, many indecipherable (1938-41) (many York entries) "Leics from Rutland 1938" notes (indecipherable) (pages 1-7); Leicester – St. Martins (page 8); "From York, May-June 1941". - Belton, Coxwold, Clifton (page 26), Cloisters, Big School, St. Dennis, York (page 36), Eversley, Honewood (?) (page 61), St. John Micklegate, Hunter's Hallamsbane (?) (page 81), Knasesborough (notes from Yorkshire Archaeological Assn.), St. Michael's Spinergate (?), St. Mary Castlegate, St. Olave, Blind School (page 115) BLANK 123-143 Stenfield (page 145), BLANK pages 147-167, Welford Berks, Wentworth Woodhouse, Cowford, Batesford, notes on York (?) pages 174-188.

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Notebook #21

Manuscripts

Handwritten cover title: "Smyth's Obituary, Crane Agreement & other Christmas Documents." Smyth's Obituary (page 2); Gerard Christmas(?) (pp 4-12). Heywood's London's Tempe (1829) (pages 14-18), Crane/Cure Agreement (pages 20-22), Christmas (pages 24- 44), Guelfi (pages 45-46), "Note on things not seen in Devon", Devonshire- Bickleigh (15.9.34) (pages 49-52), Tiverton, Holcombe Rogers, Woodbury, Lameston (Sept. 17) (page 63), Tavistock, (page 67), Eggesford, Tavistock (pages 81-96), Barnstaple, Chittlehampton, Exeter (page 102), Great Yeldham, Pashingford(?), Staningfield, Wickhambrook, Kirtling, (page 118), Lyttle Thurlow, Long Melford (page 124), Broomfield (Sept. 3), Goathurst (page 131), Bridgewater, Burnham, Crowcombe, "Places for Devon" (page 146).

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Notebook #101

Manuscripts

Notes on sculptors (pages 1 & 2); lengthy quotations from Vertue (pages 3-10); "An Agreement made good and signed for a Statue of King James the Second to be made by Mr. Grinling Gibbons" … (pages 11-14); further quotes from Vertue (pages 15-85); notes on Rysbrack, (pages 86, 89) miscellaneous notes on sculptors [by Rogers (?)]; brief notes on churches with monuments by well known sculptors (pages 96-99); brief notes on churches in Gloucestershire (in an unidentified hand) (pages 100- 101); Somersetshire; Essex (page 104); Suffolk; Norfolk; Cambridgeshire; Isle of Wight (pages 110-111), Yorkshire; East Riding; notes on well known sculptors and their works (to p. 140) Flaxman (pages 141-42); notes and quotes on sculptors John le Neve (page 159A): BLANK PAGES (159-165); BOOK REVERSES "From Work of James Barry" (pages 172-176); Hoadly, Sarah (pages 178-179); brief notes and quotations about well-known sculptors; Waagen (?) – "Art Treasures I continued" (page 184-185).

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Bacon family (manuscript and research material)

Manuscripts

Typescript and manuscript notes on the family history of John Bacon RA and John Bacon the Younger including correspondence to Esdaile from Gertrude Bacon about her ancestors with manuscript transcripts of historical documents (1925 and undated); notes on statuary commissions; a list of Bacon pencil portraits chiefly by Bacon the younger; additional miscellaneous notes; and a late 19th century pedigree of the Bacon family.

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Notebook #19

Manuscripts

"Christie's Copy of the Hudson Sale Catalogue (page 3) "Life and Times of Lawrence Stone" (page 11). Churches/Places visited: London-India Office (Dec. 1924) (page 16), Marylebone Old Church (10.1.25) (page 32), St. Thomas Hospital, Guys (Hospital?) (28.1.25), College of Surgeons (page 48), Vauxhall Handel?) Prior's Dean (?) Harts (19.III.25) (page 55), Hewart, East Lavant (20.3.25), Mid Lavant, Warlesford (page 73), Godalming, "Charles II" of R(oyal) Exchange" (page 82), Lingfield (24.4.25), Maresfield (18.VIII.25), (page 100), Warbleton, Waldron, Franfield, Brimton (22.IX.25) (page 114), Wilton, Christchurch, Lymington (page 132), Beaulieu, Bere Regis (Dorset), Piddletown, Dorchester (page 144), Wimborne, Great Canfild, Buxton (?) (29 May 1926), Longbridge Deverill, Bradford on Avon (page 172), Bath Abbey (2.6.26) (page 186), Hurstbourne Park, (June 7 1925) [Book turns page 203] "Bacon notes" [Blank 217-223], Racton Church, Sussex, Bacon (page 228) & various members of Bacon family.

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