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Bacon family (manuscript and research material)

Description

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the Younger including correspondence to Esdaile from Gertrude Bacon about her ancestors with manuscript transcripts of historical documents (1925 and undated); notes on statuary commissions; a list of Bacon pencil portraits chiefly by Bacon the younger; additional miscellaneous notes; and a late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

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
Undated
Call number
mssEsdaile
Creator
Esdaile, Katharine Ada (1881-1950)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased by the Huntington Library in 1962. The collection was initially accessioned into the Huntington Art Reference Library in 1962. Sometime afterwards, the printed books and pamphlets were removed, separately catalogued, and shelved with the main body of the Art Reference Books, and the photographs were removed to the Photo Study Collection. In 2005, the Art Reference Library collection was merged into the main collection of the Huntington Library and the decision was made to re-integrate the printed material and photographs of the Esdaile collection into the papers.
Associated people
Esdaile, Arundell James Kennedy, (1880-1956.)
Esdaile, Edmund. (1869-1935,)
Gardner, Edmund G., (1846-1937,)
Gardner, Percy, (1882-1935.)
Gunnis, Rupert,
McDowall, Stewart Andrew,
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