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Notebook #57

Description: Early pages in pencil are almost illegible. Also contains an alphabetical list of "Works by Sculptors in Le Neve." Places/churches/people visited: Delveaux (pages 3-10); Bruxelles - Town Hall; Bruges – Grunt Hiuse(?); - St. Souveneur (?); "The Sculpture of the Louvre"; "Italian Art (page 32) - Florence; Ghent; Bromsgrove (Dec. 4 1931) (page 48); Spetchley; Droitwich – St. Andrew's; - St. Peter's; Chaddesley Corbet; Stoneleigh Church; BOOK REVERSES (page 83); "Works by Sculptors in (?) le Neve" (Alphabetical list of sculpture sites – in different hand (Edmund Esdaile?) (to page 114); BLANK PAGES.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1931?
Call number: mssEsdaile
Creator: Esdaile, Katharine Ada (1881-1950)(Opens in new tab)

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 #54

Manuscripts

An address book, perhaps in the hand of Edmund Esdaile, which appears to be a collection of notes of sculptors & their workbook in Yorkshire (but not consistent and with many blank pages) (1928) Churches/places visited: St. Michael le Belfrey (York); -St. Saviours; Beverley – St. Mary; - Minster; York – St. John's, North Street; Ripon; Beverley – St. Mary (again!); Coxwold; Ripon (again): Durham Cathedral; York Minster; Beverley Minster; Durham Cathedral; BLANK (pages 23-33); Howden; Royal Exchange; York – (again) St. Michael le Belfrey; - Holy Trinity Church; Howden; York – St. Saviors; Ripon; York – Minster; Broxsted, Essex; BLANK Pages 67-81; York – Minster (page 98); St. M. le Belfrey – Chas. Miffey; Ripon – Nollebens: BLANK pages 115-129; Selby (I.VII.28) Plows of York : Yorkshire Museum; Rysback; Howden – 'Slevier Sculr'; Beverley – P. Schlemakers; St. Michael le Belfrey – Michael Taylor; BLANK 166-185; Munster – Richard Westmacott (page 186).

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Notebook #15

Manuscripts

Compiled by Edmund Esdaile. Nichols catalogue, followed by "Sculptors in Groves" – alphabetical list (starts page 22); and "Local Sculptors" – more detailed alphabetical list (starts on page 34) continuations from page 61.

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Notebook #37

Manuscripts

The organization of this notebook is unclear. Churches visited and sculptors: Bath, Ockham, St. Swithin's(?), Bath Abbey, Bromley & Beckenham, Chislehurst (page 25), Cuckfield, Ashburnham, Blank Pages (36-40), Great Stanmore, Datchett, "Roubiliac's Hogarth" (followed by chronological list of reproductions?), " Nightingale Most – Wesley's Journal" (page 58), Notes on Rysbrack(?) & John Howard(?), further notes on Hogarth (page 67) & on Hogarth's Painting Room, Blank Pages (70-81) BOOK REVERSES. Notes (crossed through) (82-90), Gloucester, Warburton, Flaxman, List of Gloucester sculptors (pages 98- 109), "Thos, Green" (?), Worcester, Sculptors "Feb. 3 of 22", Basing, Basingstoke, Tewkesbury, Winchester, More notes on sculptors (132 on) – Flaxman, Chantrey, J. Bacon Jr., Richard Leversuch; Fulham Parish Church (page 139) – crossed through, Salisbury; Walton-on-Thames. Further notes including Roubiliac (pages 174-179) and his marriage to Elizabeth Crossley; All Saint's, Fulham, Windsor Castle (6.X.22) (pages 191-221), Windsor Church, Upper School, etc. (Windsor?), West Horsley (page 230), Horsell, BOOK REVERSES All Soul's Chapel & Hall & Library, Christchurch (Oxford?) (pages 237-241) BOOK REVERSES Longford Bedwith(?) (pages 242-243).

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Notebook #25

Manuscripts

List of contacts(?) (pages 1-4), Churches/Places: Visited Grundisburgh (pages 9-10), Helingham(?), Lionel Tollemache 6/9/1646 (page 20), Burgh, Ufford (pages 26-32), Christ's Hospital, Wren Soc XI at C.H. (pages 33-36), Phillips… (page 38), list of sculptors (in note form), Norfolk (pages 55-56). Book reverses, "Hunter's South Yorkshire" (page 62) York (page 66) Stowe (page 68).

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Notebook #63

Manuscripts

Edmund Esdaile's handwriting for some entries. Notes/places/churches visited; List of Oxford Sculptors; "Wm Byrd of Oxford"; BLANK PAGES 5-9; "Other Oxford Sculptors, etc."; Jackson (page 12); Robinson; John Vanderstern; Amersham (July 16 1936) – Katharine Esdaile's handwriting (page 17); Chiswick; Barking revisited (March 1940); Shoreham Kent (with Mrs. Plant) (Oct. 1940); Oxford; Sherborne St. John (Nov 6 1940); Basing; Old Windsor (1937) (page 19); Cartouche tablet & curtain tablet (Edmund Esdaile's handwriting) (page 30); Hartley Maudit (Katharine Esdaile's handwriting); Owlesbury; Ibslay (Nov 17th 1940), Hale Hants; Bleckingsley (18.3.42); Mentham; Nutfield; Reigate; Rotherfield (with Rupert)(June 11, 1942) (page 40); Franfield; Chiddingly; Ringmor; Streat; BLANK PAGES (46 on); BOOK REVERSES "Townsends of Oxford (Edmund Esdaile's handwriting); BLANK PAGES (52-55); "List of works by the Stantons"; R Hartshorne (page 66); Thos. Cartwright; Thos. Hill; Wm. Palmer of London (page 70); Wm. Linton; Robt. Taylor; "Examples of the Fleur de lys in English Monuments, outside Roubiliac's work" (page 78); "Employed at Hampton Court"; Notes on sculptors (tiny printing); Wm. Woodman (page 84); Annis, John and James; "Minor sculptors; Thos: Green (page 91); (?) Harris of the Strand: Other minor sculptors; Sir Robert Taylor; "An unimportant (?) E. Sussex school" (page 99).

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