Sculpture -- Great Britain
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens
Collection
Call Number: MSS 10
Abstract:
This collection comprises an extra-illustrated copy--with many engravings and original manuscript letters--of the second edition of John Thomas Smith's Nollekens and his times, comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor: and memoirs of several contemporary artists, from the time of Roubillac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake (London : Henry Colburn, 1829).
Dates:
1708-1875, bulk 1768-1836
Sam Smith Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 14
Abstract:
The collection comprises original work by Sam Smith including ink drawings, mock-ups, hand-carved wooden boats, paper model sets, typescripts, and correspondence.
Dates:
1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
Collection
Call Number: MSS 53
Abstract:
The collection comprises 15 letters from Thomas Woolner to John Frederick Lewis, written between 1874 and 1876. It also includes 5 letters from Woolner to Lewis’s wife, Marian Harper, one letter from Lewis to dealer William Vokins, and several letters from Woolner’s wife and daughter. The letters primarily concern Lewis’s declining health—he died several months after the last letter in the collection—Woolner’s admiration for Lewis’s painting, updates on the politics of the Royal Academy and...
Dates:
1863-1914, bulk 1874-1876