Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859, Charles Robert Leslie sketchbook, circa 1820-1859
- Call Number:
- MSS 15
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
- Title(s):
- Charles Robert Leslie sketchbook
- Date:
- circa 1820-1859
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series I: Albums and Sketchbooks
- Part of Collection:
- Vol. 1
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- 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:
- Inscribed at front: "C.R. Leslie. No. 8 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Sq., London, Jany. 1815." The album includes a mixture of texts and drawings. Texts include: "Extracts from Grose's <title render="italic">Antiquities</title>, continued from my sketch book dated July 9th, 1813"; "Extracts descriptive of the festivities of May Day"; and various notes on Hall, Browne (his <title render="italic">Britannius pastorals</title>), Borlose, Brand (his <title render="italic">Observations on popular antiquities</title>), Hollar, and Hogarth. The volume include 15 drawings in graphite and 39 drawings in pen and black ink. Accompanying the extracts from Grose's <title render="italic">Antiquities</title> are a number of full-page drawings, in graphite, of men in military costume, along with depictions of various weaponry and armor. The ink drawings primarily depict figures in historical dress. It's possible that some of these are depictions of characters from the stage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 album (110 pages) ; 21 cm. Bound in contemporary vellum.
- Genre:
- Pen and ink drawings, Graphite drawings, Sketchbooks, Pictorial works, Albums (Books), Autobiographies, Cut-paper works, Letters, and Watercolors (paintings)
- Subject Terms:
- DanceMilitary uniformsPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPanoramas
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Brand, John, 1744-1806Browne, William, 1590-circa 1645Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677
- Finding Aid Title:
- Charles Robert Leslie Collection
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/8.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1226
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1226?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1