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"Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey" (book version, incomplete)


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    "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey" (book version, incomplete)

    Manuscripts

    These folders contain manuscript and typescript drafts (incomplete) of chapters for a book that Esdaile was creating based around her series of articles, "Studies of the English Sculptors from Pierce to Chantrey," published in The Architect in 1921-1922. Many of the folders include clippings of the original articles from The Architect to which Esdaile appended handwritten additions and made annotations and corrections.

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    Laurent Delvaux ["Some Minor Sculptors"] chapter (manuscript draft)

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    The Architect (August 11, 1922) with manuscript annotations and additions.

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    Edward Pierce chapter (manuscript draft)

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    The Architect (fragments, September 9, 1922) with manuscript annotations and additions.

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    "Studies of the English from Pierce to Chantrey" (typescript draft, annotated, incomplete)

    Manuscripts

    Includes preface, acknowledgements, table of contents; fragment of Peter Scheemaker chapter (1 pp.); Chapter V. Colley Cibber (pp. 3-8 and, possibly from a different publication, pp. 25-28); Chapter IX. Some Minor Sculptors: Plumier, Quellin, and the Van Nosts (incomplete?); Chapter XI. The Craftsmen Families and Certain Lesser Men (includes the Stanton Family, the Carter Family, the Taylor Family; and Thomas Green, James Fisher and the Camberwell sculptors; James Fisher); Chapter XIV. John Michael Rysbrack (cont.); Chapter XV. John Michael Rysbrack (cont.); Chapter XVI. John Michael Rysbrack (concluded); Chapter XX. John Bacon, R.A.; Chapter XXI. John Bacon, R.A. II. Provision List of Works; Chapter XXIII. The Sculptor of the Opposition and Two Men Immortalised by Elia" (incomplete, 4 pp. on John Francis Moore).

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    Peter Scheemaker chapter (manuscript draft)

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    The Architect (pp. 347-348, December 9, 1921, and pp. 111-112, February 10, 1922) with manuscript annotations and additions.

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    Edward Pierce chapter (manuscript draft)

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    Consists of manuscript draft and pages/clippings from The Architect (fragments, September 9, 1922) with manuscript annotations and additions.

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