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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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Manuscripts
Includes typescript and copy of article printed in The Architect (September 8, 1922); annotated typescript chapter XXI of "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey" published, 1922; manuscript chapters 1-3 of "John Bacon, R.A. 1749-1799" by Esdaile; and an unidentified fragment of a typescript and manuscript piece on Bacon (pages 11-19).
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"Chapter III Later Stuart Sculpture" (typescript and manuscript, incomplete) and "Notes on Chapter III" (manuscript, possibly incomplete, 1 page) "Chapter IV Georgian Sculpture 1714-1768" (typescript, annotated) "Interchapter I - the Growth of the Historic Spirit" (typescript, annotated, incomplete) "Interchapter II – The Illustrious Obscure" (typescript, annotated) "Chapter V The Foundation of the Royal Academy and its Influence Upon English Sculpture"
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Typescript, annotated, part of larger unidentified article, possibly part of a larger work by another author, with a manuscript article by Esdaile.
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Typescript and manuscript notes on the family history of John Bacon RA and John Bacon the Younger including correspondence to Esdaile from Gertrude Bacon about her ancestors with manuscript transcripts of historical documents (1925 and undated); notes on statuary commissions; a list of Bacon pencil portraits chiefly by Bacon the younger; additional miscellaneous notes; and a late 19th century pedigree of the Bacon family.
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Consists of printer's proof fragment of only the title page, frontispiece, preface, and acknowledgement; incomplete typescript and manuscript drafts of Chapter 1 - introductory; incomplete typescript drafts of Chapters 3 and 4; annotated typescript draft of Chapter 5; and "Mrs. Arundell Esdaile's Syllabus" and "Notes on Mrs. Esdaile's Syllabus" (typescript showing early chapter headings and publisher's comments).
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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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