Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864, Sketchbook, 1824
- Call Number:
- MSS 16
- Creator:
- Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
- Title(s):
- Sketchbook
- Date:
- 1824
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Vol. 1
- Provenance:
- Acquired 2011, Paul Mellon Fund.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- 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:
- Inscribed “Mary Parker / Sweeney at Oswestry— / 1824” on front pastedown. The sketchbook contains graphite and watercolor sketches of scenes in the vicinity of her family’s home, Sweeney Hall, in Oswestry, Shropshire, on the border of Wales. It also includes sketches of picturesque sites from North Wales, such as the Llyn Peninsula and the countryside about Conwy. Mary displays a marked interest in Gothic architecture, as well as in recent technological developments, seen in her sketches of the Conwy Suspension Bridge and of the construction of the Menai Bridge at Anglesey. The two structures, both designed by Thomas Telford (1757–1834) and completed in 1826, were among the first suspension bridges in the world.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (approximately 30 drawings) ; 15 x 24 cm. Bound in contemporary red half roan and gray boards.
- Genre:
- Watercolors (paintings), Graphite drawings, Sketchbooks, Pictorial works, Caricatures, Children's art, Engravings (prints), Pen and ink drawings, Portraits, and Trade cards
- Subject Terms:
- AmusementsBattlesCatholic emancipation Clothing and dressDecoration and ornamentDrawingFashionPeasantsStudy and teachingSuspension bridges
- Associated Places:
- Great BritainIrelandItalyOswestry (England)ScotlandSwitzerlandWales, North
- Associated People/Groups:
- Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt, 1730-1799Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824Leighton, Baldwyn, Sir, 1836-1897Leighton, Charlotte, d. 1928Leighton, Frances Christina, d. 1930Leighton, Isabella, d. 1911Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864Leighton, Stanley, 1837-1901Parker, John, 1798-1860
- Finding Aid Title:
- Mary Leighton Collection
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1302
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1302?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1