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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Presumably a draft of the article published in the July 1944 Architectural Review: "So-Called Aged Wren Proves to be Richard Miller by Rysbrack." (Published article not in collection.)
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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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52-page typescript draft with annotations.
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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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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Much of this is in faded, illegible pencil. Churches, places visited/people: London – St. John at Hackney (April 30 1924): - ChCh (Christchurch?) Spitalfields; Wilton (2.5.24); "Rysbrack Statuette" (page 21); "Dr. King – Anecdotes of former (?) Times"; ChCh (May 6 24) (page 26); Bodley (Library, Oxford?) (page 43); Camera (Radcliffe, Camera, Oxford?); Stratford; St. Paul's School (May 18 24); "LFR (Roubiliac) the Pugnacious"; More notes on Roubiliac; Sherbourne; ? Notes on sculptors? Kensington Palace (page 78); Somerset House, London; Broadwater (18.X.24); Shrewsbury – St. Mary's (21.X.24); - Old St. Chad's; – New St. Chad's; - The Abbey Church; Wrexham (page 92); Gresford; Chester (24.X.24) – Cathedral; Condover; "Portraits at Chink Castle"; "Hist. Of Abby Ch. of St. Peter's Westminster"; BOOK REVERSES: "Handel Model" (page 114); Notes; BLANK (122-1; ChCh Inser (?); Notes on Roubiliac, Bushnell, Bacon, Newton, etc; Chipping Camden (page 140); SM (St. Mary's?) Oxford (June 28th 1924); Queen's College, Oxford?); St. Giles, Cripplegate; West Grinstead (Sept 25th 1924) (page 150); Horsham; Notes on Sculptors; Canons (?) & Sales Catalogues (with Roubiliac mentions); Hereford (page 170); "Notes from Victoria County History of Warwickshire"; Stamford; Malvern Priority (Oct. 31st); BLANK (page 181); BOOK REVERSES; Clink (Oct 22nd & 22th); Hampton Lovett (Oct 30); BOOK REVERSES; Stourhead page 200) – Pantheon; - Library; - church (page 239).
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Pages of editorials and articles from The Architect, including unattributed articles probably by Esdaile. Includes the entire issue for April 7, 1922, and June 23, 1922. Articles consist of: "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey: XI. John Michael Rysbrack (1693-1770)-cont." (Article with handwritten annotations) (April 7, 1922, full issue) "The Poster Question Again" (Editorial) (April 14, 1922) "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey: XIV. Louis Francois Roubiliac (1695-1762)" (Article) (June 23, 1922, full issue) "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey: XV. Joseph Wilton, R.A. (1722-1803)" (Article) (June 30, 1922)
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