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Call Number:
MSS 7
Creator:
Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989
Title(s):
Marble Quarrying: State [5a]
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:
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 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Scope and Content:
Unnumbered print. The clearest indication that this state comes after State 5 is found in the landscape between the two necks of the crane, where the two parallel shadows have been reduced to only one shadow; also, in the black triangle to the left of the crane, detail lines appear in this proof that are absent from State 5. It probably precedes State 6 because this proof lacks details in the rope, metal ring, etc. in the leftmost portion of the tool assembly. However, some details present in State 5 and even earlier prints are missing here. The printing overall is poor quality, spotted with white dots. Fingerprints appear at the top right of the page.
Physical Description:
1 print : wood engraving, on clay-coated paper ;
Genre:
Wood engravings , Pictorial works, Queen's ware, Graphite drawings, Letters, and Photographs
Subject Terms:
Agriculture
Atlantic cod fishing
Cranberry industry
Grain
Ice industry
Lobster industry
Logging
Maple sugar industry
Marble industry and trade
Milling
Pictorial works
Shipbuilding
Tobacco farms
Whaling
Wood-engraving
Associated People/Groups:
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989
Finding Aid Title:
Clare Leighton collection
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/6400
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6400?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1