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Call Number:
MSS 16
Creator:
Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
Title(s):
Album
Date:
1827
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Vol. 2
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 “Drawings by Mary Parker Lady Leighton” on front pastedown. Leighton made the album during an extensive tour of the Rhineland, Switzerland, and northern Italy, in the company of her mother and brother. The journal and drawings of the tour by her brother, John Parker, are at the National Library, Aberystwyth. See: Parry, Edward, "The Revd John Parker: ‘a warm partizan of Gothic art'", Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, vol. 64, (2020), pp. 90-114. The album contains graphite and watercolor sketches of scenes in Wales and Switzerland. Welsh scenes include pencil drawings of a bow-meeting at Hawarden Castle and of the Erbistock Rectory, both in North Wales. Swiss scenes focus on such popular tourist destinations as Lake Morat, Lake Thun, the Upper Grinewald Glacier, and the Drachenfels. Most of her Swiss sketches are in watercolor over graphite, with two unfinished drawings including notations that describe the scenes’ missing colors and light effects. The scrapbook also includes sketches of domestic scenes; character studies; portraits, including one of her mother reading; copies after Old Masters; and drawings of architectural ornament. These last reflect a shared interest with her elder brother, John Parker, a clergyman and antiquarian.
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 220 drawings) ; 32 x 25 cm. Bound in contemporary half roan and marbled boards.
Genre:
Portraits, Watercolors (paintings), Graphite drawings, Pen and ink drawings, Pictorial works, Caricatures, Children's art, Engravings (prints), Sketchbooks, 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:
Parker, John, 1798-1860
Finding Aid Title:
Mary Leighton Collection
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1303
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1303?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1