Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989, Wedgwood plates notes (draft 1), [circa 1952]
- Call Number:
- MSS 7
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
- Title(s):
- Wedgwood plates notes (draft 1)
- Date:
- [circa 1952]
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Writings
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 3
- 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:
- Draft headed "Wedgwood Plate Notes" with extensive corrections in pencil. These are preliminary thoughts for what was to be Leighton's full page of text in the printed prospectus. Leighton describes her process for selecting the industries to be portrayed and her experience working with New Englanders. She writes: "True, they had the same arms and legs, the same far off, keen look in their eyes that you find in all fishermen, everywhere, the same angular bonyness of all tillers of the soil. And yet, in some indefinable way there was a difference. Something happens to a man's face and stance when he battles the cold. I must be able to show this, with engraving tools, on wood." She also describes her decision to "emblazon the tools of each industry at the foot of the plate" to "secure for posterity man's artifacts, and show the eternal and universal nobility of their shapes."
- Physical Description:
- 6 leaves : typed, with corrections in graphite
- Genre:
- Pictorial works, Queen's ware, Graphite drawings, Letters, Photographs, and Wood engravings
- Subject Terms:
- AgricultureAtlantic cod fishingCranberry industryGrainIce industryLobster industryLoggingMaple sugar industryMarble industry and tradeMillingShipbuildingTobacco 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/6536
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6536?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1