Manuscripts
"English Sculpture in Some Berkshire Churches."
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"English Sculpture in Some Berkshire Churches."
Manuscripts
Consists of reprints of Part II (from Vol. XLV, Part II, 1941) (2 copies); Part III (from Vol. XLVI, Part I, 1942); and Part IV (from Vol. XLVI, Part II, 1942) from the Berkshire Archaeological Journal.
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Incoming correspondence
Manuscripts
60 letters on topics including the disastrous fire in Westminster Abbey (May 12 letter from Geoffrey Houghton-Brown) with a follow-up letter from Lord Esher suggesting a course of action; correspondence with Alderman J. B. Morrell of York (which led to Esdaile's work on Yorkshire monuments); an invitation to write articles on "monumental effigies" of Berkshire in Archaeological Society's Journal; and the destruction of the Temple Church and adjacent buildings.
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Berkshire: "English Sculpture in Some Berkshire Churches" (typescript, with corrections, of the foreword, only, from Part I of article published in Berkshire Archaeological Journal,1941, vol. 45, Part I)
Manuscripts
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business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.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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"English Monumental Sculpture" (Originally titled "Here and There; The Explorer among English Monuments")
Manuscripts
English Monumental Sculpture Since the Renaissance (1929).
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A Meadow Lark's View of the Berkshire Summer School of Art at Monterey, Mass
Visual Materials
One flyer for the Berkshire Summer School of Art entitled, A Meadow Lark's View of the Berkshire Summer School of Art at Monterey, Mass., published by the Berkshire Summer School of Art, ca. 1940. This advertisement is a two-sided single sheet; one side is an illustrated map of the campus; the other side contains informational text and three photograph illustrations. The classes offered and methods used are outlined, and a teaching faculty roster is given. Accompanying this advertisement is a single leaf that has been removed from a book or brochure. It is numbered pp. 23 and 24, and printed at the top of p. 23 is "The Berkshire Summer School of Art." The leaf is illustrated photographically.
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