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Call Number:
MSS 7
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
Title(s):
Marble Quarrying: State [3a]
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 Undetermined

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:
Unnumbered print. No corrections in gouache. Details on the two necks of the crane, on the rope in the foreground, and on the shadows of the landscape (especially the two parallel shadows in the top middle, which Leighton later reduced to one shadow) indicate that this state came before either State 3 or State 4. One line in the left part of the crane wheel appears in State 3 but not in this print; however, that line also disappears on some later prints, suggesting that over-inking caused the finer lines to vanish (see, for instance State [5a], where a number of lines present in State 5 have vanished).
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
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/33.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/6395
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/6395?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1