Manuscripts

Notebook #72

Description: People/places; Bushnell-Drawings of urns (items in sale?); notes; Fitton Monts (?); Gansworth; Stefford; Notes on sculptors (page 13); Salisbury (?); "Lincolnshire Sale – Christie Dec 7 1928"; Vertue May 17 1757 – Lots in sale? (page 23).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1928
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.

Notebook #61

Manuscripts

Portions of this book are devoted to long digressions on Bushnell and Rysbrack. People/texts listed; churches/places visited; Brighton – St. Nicholas; Notes on John Bushnell; Teddington; Kingston (29.xii.25); More notes on Bushnell (pages 16-26); Abingdon – St. Helen's; Wycombe; RIBA (Oct. 23 1925); Fulmer (9.xi.25); BOOK REVERSES Page 41; Gresham College (?); Harefield ("Buckinghamshire Notes") (May 6 1925); Denham (page 70); Hillingdon; Uxbridge; Ickenham (1.5.25); Ruislip; Salisbury; Stourhead (page 96); Notes on Rysbrack (pages 98-106); Sherborne (?); Rinquer (?); Clothworker's Hall (5.6.25) (page 125); Firle (17.ix.25); Stoke Pogis.

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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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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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Notebook #64

Manuscripts

Churches/places visited: Horncastle, Lincolnshire (Aug 17 1935); Willoughby Chapel; Somersley; Snarford; Lincoln; Branston; Gantby; Alford; Strubby; Haugh (page 27); Theddlethorpe – St. Helen's ("A perfect day") Aug. 26 1935; - All Saints; S. Cockerington; Saltflectly – All Saints; Chigwell (with Edmund & Mrs. Wise) (Oct 1, 1935); Chipping Ongan; Blackmore; Ingate stone (page 49); "Visit to Balls Park June 23, 1938" Ashton Bury; Cobbam; West Horsley; East Horsley; Bray (July 5 38); Wighill (page 69); Stillingfleet (Sept 21, 1941!); Cawood; Wistrow; Ledsham; Thornbill (page 81); Kirkheaton; Brayton; Snaith; 'Clerk of the Works' 'York (?) museum"; Hinxton.

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Notebook #20

Manuscripts

Appears to be temporary notebook with most entries crossed through. Book reverses at page 12. Scheemaker (pages 21-24), Bushnell (p. 26), Pierce (pages 27-35).

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Notebook #17

Manuscripts

Book reverses itself in middle. With handwritten cover title: "Contains notes on Vertue's and Richardson's sales; accounts of St. Lawrence Jewry; notes on JT Smith, Greenfield, CC 1938." Churches visited – Persivale, Ukbridge, Persivale (again), Wimbledon, "Mead - Sale of Coins, Gems" 1755, Wimbledon continued Hutchins(?) "Traditional Mason" (page 43), reverse after page 49, Exton (page 50), St. Lawrence Jewry (page 55), Oxford churches – St. Mary Magdalene Holywell, St. Peters-in-the-East, "Gothic Romance" (page 74) Burlington. JT Smith's "Rural Scenery" (page 89). Book reverses, "Vertue's pictures sold May 17 1757" (page 110), Richardson's Sale (page 109), Clermont (page 114). Book reverses, Halefield (page 129).

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Notebook #72

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