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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:
Amusements
Battles
Catholic emancipation
Clothing and dress
Decoration and ornament
Drawing
Fashion
Peasants
Study and teaching
Suspension bridges
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Ireland
Italy
Oswestry (England)
Scotland
Switzerland
Wales, North
Associated People/Groups:
Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt, 1730-1799
Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824
Leighton, Baldwyn, Sir, 1836-1897
Leighton, Charlotte, d. 1928
Leighton, Frances Christina, d. 1930
Leighton, Isabella, d. 1911
Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
Leighton, Stanley, 1837-1901
Parker, 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