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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907
Title(s):
Mary Leslie sketchbook (1)
Date:
1865
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: Albums and Sketchbooks
Part of Collection:
Vol. 3
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
The album is inscribed at front: "Eleven drawings & two cuttings, 1865." In fact, the album comprises 16 drawings and two cut-paper works, to which have been inserted three additional sheets containing five more drawings. About half of the drawings are finished in watercolor. Most of the drawings depict young ladies in various fashions; some depict children. The two cut-paper works depict a wading bird and a semi-abstract collection of flowers. At the end is tipped in a printed page of "Isabella, or The pot of basil, a story from Bocaccio."
Physical Description:
1 album (26 pages) ; 16 cm. Bound in blind-stamped red calf, with copper clasps (intact); all edges gilt.
Genre:
Graphite drawings, Botanical illustrations, Cut-paper works, Sketchbooks, Watercolors (paintings), Pictorial works, Albums (Books), Autobiographies, Pen and ink drawings, and Letters
Subject Terms:
Clothing and dress
Dance
Fashion
Military uniforms
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
Panoramas
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Brand, John, 1744-1806
Browne, William, 1590-approximately 1645
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
Leslie, Bradford, 1831-1926
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Leslie, Harriet Jane, 1828-1864
Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907
Leslie, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1826-1901
Leslie, Robert, -1804
Leslie, Thomas Jefferson, 1796 or 1797-1874
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
Powell, Peter, ca. 1775-1855
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
Finding Aid Title:
Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/8.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1228
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1228?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1