Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864, Album, circa 1826–1854
- Call Number:
- MSS 16
- Creator:
- Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
- Title(s):
- Album
- Date:
- circa 1826–1854
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Vol. 4
- 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 at front: "Mary Parker, 1829." Album reveals Mary’s ongoing interest in comic scenes, picturesque views, and fine art. It includes drawings from key tourist sites, such as Northern Italy’s Lago Maggiore and Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne, as well as a series of copies after works in the British Museum. These drawings occasionally identify the collection from which the artworks come; many are from the bequests of Reverend Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730–1799) and Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824). Her copies include drawings after artworks by such figures as Ludolf Backhuysen, Jan van der Meer, Carlo Maratti, and Giuseppe Cesari d’Arpino, among others. In addition to drawings and copies in her own hand, she includes two etchings of ecclesiastical ornament and a graphite drawing by her brother, John Parker. Though the scrapbook focuses on her life before marriage, it also features a watercolor sketch of Halston Chapel in Shropshire by her daughter, Frances.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (approximately 90 drawings, 2 prints, 3 travel passes) ; 28 x 23 cm. Bound in contemporary red half roan and marbled boards.
- Genre:
- Graphite drawings, Pen and ink drawings, Watercolors (paintings), Pictorial works, Caricatures, Children's art, Engravings (prints), Portraits, Sketchbooks, 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, 1751-1824
- Finding Aid Title:
- Mary Leighton Collection
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1305
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1305?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1