Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989, Marble Quarrying: State [4a], [between 1949 and 1951]
- Call Number:
- MSS 7
- Creator:
- Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989
- Title(s):
- Marble Quarrying: State [4a]
- Date:
- [between 1949 and 1951]
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series II: Artwork
- Part of Collection:
- Oversize 2, folder 8
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. Tiernan LLB 1968 and Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Hamway. Ten of the Wedgwood plates are the gift of Judith and Norman Zlotsky, Yale Class of 1953.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe 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:
- This state is unnumbered, but the markings along the two necks of the crane and on the rope in the foreground indicate that it came somewhere between States 4 and 5. The only corrections in gouache are added to the shadows in the landscape at the top of the image. Leighton eventually did change this spot, but not following the corrections found in this state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : wood engraving, with corrections in white gouache, on thin, long-fibered Japanese paper ;
- Genre:
- Wood engravings , Pictorial works, Queen's ware, Graphite drawings, Letters, and Photographs
- Subject Terms:
- AgricultureAtlantic cod fishingCranberry industryGrainIce industryLobster industryLoggingMaple sugar industryMarble industry and tradeMillingPictorial worksShipbuildingTobacco farmsWhalingWood-engraving
- Associated People/Groups:
- Josiah Wedgwood & SonsLeighton, Clare, 1898-1989
- Finding Aid Title:
- Clare Leighton collection
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/33.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/6397
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6397?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1