Manuscripts
"Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey" (book version, incomplete)
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"Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey" (book version, incomplete)
Manuscripts
The Architect in 1921-1922. Many of the folders include clippings of the original articles from The Architect to which Esdaile appended handwritten additions and made annotations and corrections.
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"Studies of the English from Pierce to Chantrey" (typescript draft, annotated, incomplete)
Manuscripts
Includes preface, acknowledgements, table of contents; fragment of Peter Scheemaker chapter (1 pp.); Chapter V. Colley Cibber (pp. 3-8 and, possibly from a different publication, pp. 25-28); Chapter IX. Some Minor Sculptors: Plumier, Quellin, and the Van Nosts (incomplete?); Chapter XI. The Craftsmen Families and Certain Lesser Men (includes the Stanton Family, the Carter Family, the Taylor Family; and Thomas Green, James Fisher and the Camberwell sculptors; James Fisher); Chapter XIV. John Michael Rysbrack (cont.); Chapter XV. John Michael Rysbrack (cont.); Chapter XVI. John Michael Rysbrack (concluded); Chapter XX. John Bacon, R.A.; Chapter XXI. John Bacon, R.A. II. Provision List of Works; Chapter XXIII. The Sculptor of the Opposition and Two Men Immortalised by Elia" (incomplete, 4 pp. on John Francis Moore).
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"Our English Sculptors" (manuscript, incomplete)
Manuscripts
Consists of Chapters I (Introductory); II ("Under the Tudors"); and IV ("Some Sixteenth Century Sculptors"). No Ch. III has been found.
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Articles
Manuscripts
Pages of editorials and articles from The Architect, including unattributed articles probably by Esdaile. Includes the entire issue for July 21, 1922, and August 11, 1922. Articles consist of: "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey: XVI. Some Minor Sculptors" (Article on Quellin, John Van Nost [or Ost]) (July 21, 1922, full issue + annotated publisher's proof) "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey: XVII. Some Minor Sculptors" (Article on John Van Ost [Junior], Laurent Delvaux) (August 11, 1922, full issue) "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey: XX. John Bacon, R.A." (Article, with editorial "The Limits of Architecture" attached) (September 8, 1922) "'Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat'" (Editorial) (November 3, 1922) "Correspondence. Additions and Corrections to the Articles on British Sculptors" (Letter to the editor) (December 29, 1922)
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Bacon, John (article and chapter drafts)
Manuscripts
Includes typescript and copy of article printed in The Architect (September 8, 1922); annotated typescript chapter XXI of "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey" published, 1922; manuscript chapters 1-3 of "John Bacon, R.A. 1749-1799" by Esdaile; and an unidentified fragment of a typescript and manuscript piece on Bacon (pages 11-19).
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[English Sculptors?] (typescript and manuscript, annotated, incomplete fragments)
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
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