Leighton, Baldwyn, Sir, 1836-1897, Sketchbook, circa 1854-1859
- Call Number:
- MSS 16
- Creator:
- Leighton, Baldwyn, Sir, 1836-1897
- Title(s):
- Sketchbook
- Date:
- circa 1854-1859
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Vol. 9
- 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:
- Sketchbook features drawings from Baldwyn Leighton’s social engagements in Cheshire at Arley Hall, estate of Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (1804–1891), and Tabley Hall, estate of George Fleming Warren, 2nd Baron De Tabley (1811–1887). Warren and his wife would become Baldwyn’s in-laws on his 1864 marriage to their daughter, Eleanor (1841¬–1914). The drawings seem primarily by Baldwyn’s hand and portray amateur theatricals and practical jokes, such as Lord Shawcross “got up as a drunken man” and an episode in which a “daemon” attempts to frighten Lady Egerton. Other drawings feature scenes from parties and celebrations, including a watercolor depicting the attendees of the November 1858 costume ball at Capesthorne Hall. While many of the drawings have a comic or even pointedly satiric tone, others are more sober portraits, often of women. These drawings, which feature such sitters as Eleanor’s sister Catherine and her aunt Anna Cottin, may be by one of Baldywn’s sisters, or by Eleanor herself.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (75 drawings, 2 poems) ; 29 x 25 cm.
- Genre:
- Graphite drawings, Pen and ink drawings, Watercolors (paintings), Pictorial works, Caricatures, Children's art, Engravings (prints), Portraits, Sketchbooks, and Trade cards
- Subject Terms:
- AmusementsBalls (Parties)BattlesCatholic emancipation Cheshire (England)Clothing and dressDecoration and ornamentDrawingFashionPeasantsSocial life and customsStudy and teachingSuspension bridges
- Associated Places:
- Great BritainIrelandItalyOswestry (England)ScotlandSwitzerlandWales, North
- Associated People/Groups:
- Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (Rowland Eyles), 1804-1891Leighton, Baldwyn, Sir, 1836-1897Leighton, Eleanor, 1841–1914Warren, John Byrne Leicester, Baron de Tabley, 1835-1895
- Finding Aid Title:
- Mary Leighton Collection
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1310
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1310?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1