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Notebook #101

Description

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).

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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