Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907, Mary Leslie sketchbook (1), 1865
- 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 UndeterminedThe 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 dressDanceFashionMilitary uniformsPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPanoramas
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Brand, John, 1744-1806Browne, William, 1590-approximately 1645Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677Leslie, Bradford, 1831-1926Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859Leslie, George Dunlop, 1835-1921Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879Leslie, Harriet Jane, 1828-1864Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907Leslie, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1826-1901Leslie, Robert, -1804Leslie, Thomas Jefferson, 1796 or 1797-1874Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872Powell, Peter, ca. 1775-1855Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880West, 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