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Rysbrack, John Michael. "The So-Called Aged Wren" (manuscript, 4 pages)


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    Rysbrack, John Michael. "The So-Called Aged Wren" (manuscript, 4 pages)

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    Architectural Review: "So-Called Aged Wren Proves to be Richard Miller by Rysbrack." (Published article not in collection.)

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    Rysbrack, John Michael: sales catalogues, notes etc

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    Consists of a typescript of sales, catalogues 'Rysbrack Sale April 20 1765' and related sales and miscellaneous notes and correspondence including "Contracts and Bills between Henry Hoare and Michael Rysbrack" [Undated typescript copies of 1747 and 1759 documents].

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    John Michael Rysbrack chapters (manuscript drafts)

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    Consists of manuscript drafts and pages from The Architect (pp. 163-166, March 3, 1922, and pp. 249-252, April 7, 1922) with manuscript annotations and additions.

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    Nollekens, Joseph: "A Group of Terracotta Models by Joseph Nollekens RA" (typescript and manuscript article)

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    Article drafts accompanied by 1927 letter about a bust and some manuscript notes. Article published in The Burlington Magazine, September 1944.

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    The Art of John Michael Rysbrack in Terra Cotta (published 1932)

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    52-page typescript draft with annotations.

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    Rysbrack, John Michael (27 images, 3 drawings, and a 1943 letter)

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    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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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