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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Two catalogues: one with illustrations and one smaller with text (annotated, perhaps by Arundell Esdaile). Accompanied by 21 press clippings of the exhibit and a typescript review of the exhibition, "The Royal Academy. The Spanish Exhibition" with handwritten corrections by "R.E.D. Sketchley" (Katharine Esdaile?).
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Catalogue has news clippings pasted in, as well as additional clipping. Accompanied by typescript review (for the Glasgow Herald) "Swedish Art. Exhibition at the Royal Academy. From our Art Correspondent" (Katharine Esdaile?) as well as an additional untitled typescript article about the exhibit.
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Bound scrapbook containing clippings and offprints of Esdaile's published writings, chiefly from The Architect, Burlington Magazine, and Country Life, as well as some articles by others. Includes: "Meditations Among the Tombs" (review of English Monumental Sculpture) (pp. 121-122 in Country Life, January 28, 1928) "Bubb" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 33-44 in Art Work Spring 1929) "New Light on a Neglected Century of British Sculpture" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 241-246 in Discovery, 1922) "The Limits of Architecture" (pp. 165-166 in The Architect, September 8, 1922) "Wilkes by Roubiliac: A Bust Given to the Corporation of London" (pp. 1041-1042 in The Illustrated London News, June 8, 1935) "New Light on Hubert Le Sueur" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 177-184 in Burlington Magazine, 1934) "Royal Academy of Arts: Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, January-March, 1938" (leaflet) "English Statuary at the Antwerp Exhibition" (pp. 653-654 in The Architect & Building News, May 23, 1930) "The Decline of the Mason-Architect in England" by Douglas Knoop and G.P. Jones (pp. 1-4 in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, August 14, 1937) "Correspondence: References to Sculptors in Wren Society's Volume XI" (pp. 556-558 in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, March 9, 1935) "Correspondence: Wren Society, Volume XI" (pp. 611-612 in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, March 23, 1935) "The Story of Regent Street" by Charles G. Harper (pp. 64-66 in The Architect, January 23, 1925) "Caius Gabriel Cibber" [review] (pp. 331-332 in The Architect & Building News, September 17, 1926) "The Newark Papers" (typescript, Sept-Oct 1940) "Some Eighteenth Century Works on Architecture-II" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 567-570 in The Architect & Building News, November 12, 1926) "Harefield Church and its Monuments-II: a lecture delivered at Gerrards Cross on November 9, 1925, by Mrs. Esdaile" (pp. 403-404 in The Architect, December 4, 1925) "Harefield Church and its Monuments: a lecture delivered at Gerrards Cross on November 9, 1925, by Mrs. Esdaile" (pp. 385-388 in The Architect, November 27, 1925) "The Symbolism of Death in England-1440-1780" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 272-273 in The Architect, October 16, 1925) "Paintings at the Royal Academy by Philistine" (pp. 1-8 in The Architect & Building News, May 7, 1926) "Roubiliac (1695-1762)" (pp. 1079-1082 in The Saturday Review, November 23, 1918) "Why St. Paul's is Empty" (pp. 89-90 in The Architect, August 10, 1923) "Sir. John Vanbrugh: A Critical Note" by A. Trystan Edwards (pp. 253-262 in The Architect & Building News, March 26, 1926) "Lord Chesterfield on Chelsea China" by K.A. Esdaile (p. 458 in Country Life, September 20, 1924) "A Re-Discovered Portrait of Michelangelo at Goldsborough Hall" by Tancred Borenius (pp. 434-335 in Country Life, September 20, 1924) "Wentworth Woodhouse - I. Yorkshire. A Seat of Earl Fitzwilliam" by H. Avray Tipping (pp. 436-444 in Country Life, September 20, 1924) "Shorter Notices: Cousin to Pepys and Dryden : a note on the works of Mrs. Elizabeth Creed of Tichmarsh" by K.A. Esdaile (pp. 24-28 in the Burlington Magazine, 1940) "Garden Sculpture by Caius Cibber" by Lady Victoria Manners (pp. 382-383 in Country Life, September 27, 1930) pp. 149-150 of The Architect & Building News, May 11, 1934 "At the Theatre: A Light View of First Principles" (pp. 681-682 in Country Life, May 10, 1930) "The Howard Tombs at Framlingham" by Lady Victoria Manners (pp. 948-950 in Country Life, June 29, 1929) "The Universities of Oxford & Cambridge: The Radcliffe Observatory Oxford" (pp. 674-680 in Country Life, May 10, 1930) "The Universities of Oxford & Cambridge: II.- The Pepys Library" (pp. 300-308 in Country Life, March 3, 1928) "The Building of St. Paul's--II" by H. Avray Tipping (pp. 262-265 in Country Life, February 25, 1928) "The Universities of Oxford & Cambridge: Magdalene College, Cambridge --I" (pp. 266-276 in Country Life, February 25, 1928) "A Georgian Sculptor Discovered: II. Charles Stanley (1703-61) in Denmark" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 608-611 in Country Life, December 11, 1937) "A Georgian Sculptor Discovered: I. Charles Stanley (1703-1761) and his English Colleagues" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 348-354 in Country Life, October 2, 1937) "The Reverend William Hanbury of Church Langton, Gardener, Educationist, and Visionary" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 562-564 in Country Life, December 3, 1938) "The Musical Glasses" (pp. 606-607 in Country Life, June 11, 1938) "The Actual Face of King Charles I" (p. 991 in The Illustrated London News, "December 3, 1927) "The Recumbent Effigy in English Sculpture" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 17-19 in an unidentified German-language periodical, December 1928) "The Albert Hall, 1871-1931" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 439-441 in The Architect & Building News, March 27, 1931) "Battles Royal: The Foreign Office: Some Great Architectural Controversies of the Past" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 45-47 in The Architect & Building News, January 13, 1933) "A Little-Known Sculptor" (pp. 276 in The Architect & Building News, February 26, 1932) "Battles Royal: The Foreign Office: Some Great Architectural Controversies of the Past" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 47-49 in The Architect & Building News, January 8, 1933) "The Prince of Wales Returns from Spain, 1623" by Mrs. Esdaile (pp. 222-224 in The Connoisseur, 1934) "A Note on the Portrait of Lady Hamilton…" (pp. 183-184 in The Connoisseur, 1929) "London Leaded Steeples. --III" by Lawrence Weaver (pp. 89-97 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "Coade Stone" by Katharine Esdaile (pp. 112-114 in The Architect & Building News, January 26, 1940) "Coade Stone" by Katharine Esdaile (pp. 94-96 in The Architect & Building News, January 19, 1940) "Croome D'Abitot Church" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 387-392 in The Architect & Building News, June 29, 1934) "Country Notes" (pp. 349-350 in Country Life, March 16, 1929) "A New Portrait of Dr. Johnson" by Augustine Birrell (pp. 267-269 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "Some Portraits in Relief Here Attributed to Christian Van Vianen" by K.A. Esdaile and "Recent Research" (pp. 22-34 in the Burlington Magazine, January 1940) "Bacon's George III, the River Thames at his feet, at Somerset House" by K.A. Esdaile (p. 168 in the Burlington Magazine, 1939) "A Seventeenth-Century Model of an English Monument" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 195-202 in the Burlington Magazine, 1929) "A Recovered Masterpiece by Roubiliac" by Katharine A. Esdaile (p. 136-140 in the Burlington Magazine, 1925) "Notes on Various Works of Art" [includes "A Bust of Sir William Hamilton by Michael Foye (fl. 1764-77)" by Katharine A. Esdaile] (pp. 81-88 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "Notes on Various Works of Art" [includes "Michael Foye" by Katharine A. Esdaile] (pp. 237-238 in the Burlington Magazine, 192-) "Some Eighteenth Century Literary Allusions to Chelsea China" by Mrs. Arundell Esdaile (pp. 4-20 in the Burlington Magazine, undated) "On Contorniates" by Katharine Esdaile (pp. 90-100 in the Burlington Magazine, 1909?) "The Early English School of Portraiture" by William A. Shaw (pp. 172-184 in the Burlington Magazine, October 1934) "A Statuette of William III at South Kensington" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 123-124 in the Burlington Magazine, April 1940, with a corrected proof laid in) "Notes on Various Works of Art: Bernini, Rysbrack and Roubiliac" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 93-98 in the Burlington Magazine, February 1924 with handwritten notes laid in) "Roubiliac and Rysbrack" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 197-199 in the Burlington Magazine, April 1923?) "Theory, or The Graphic Muse engraved by Blake after Reynolds" by Katharine A. Esdaile (pp. 113-115 in the Burlington Magazine, 1904) [Unidentified fragment of article with photo captioned "4.--Truth Supporting Colt's Monument of Lord Salisbury at Hatfield Hertfordshire"]
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2 copies of the full March 28, 1930, issue (Vol. LXXVIII, No. 4036) containing "The Portrait in Our Later Monumental Sculpture" by Esdaile.
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Catalogue, with annotations possibly by Arundell Esdaile. Second of three copies.
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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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