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Art

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Academic and personal correspondence, 1880 - 1990

 Sub-Series

Academic and personal correspondence, 1880 - 1990

Reference number: ES-PP/01
Scope and Contents This sub-series comprises correspondence, both personal and professional/academic (though primarily the latter), from a wide array of senders and organisations. Some of the major recurrent institutions represented herein include the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom (DAI), the British Museum (particularly the Department of Printed Books and the Department of Manuscripts, which merged with the Department of Oriental Manuscripts & Printed Books in 1973 to form the British Library),...
Dates: 1880 - 1990

Album Collection

 Sub-Series

Album Collection

Reference number: ES-PH/07
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises 17 albums of photographs, prints, and postcards, broadly arranged by place and/or by subject matter. It includes: glass and glasswork; Egypt, Greece and Libya by British-Italian photographer Antonio Beato; Italian Medieval and Renaissance architecture and art, including sculpture, painting and mosaics; Italian photographs; Italy and France; the UK (specifically the Ince Blundell Collection of classical and ancient sculpture) and more.

Dates: 1870 - 1943

Catalogues and publications relating to private collections

 Sub-Series

Catalogues and publications relating to private collections

Reference number: ES-PP/03
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises material relating to ES's work to catalogue various collections, including Lord Melchett's collection of Greek and Roman antiques at Petworth House, the Chatsworth Library, the Devonshire Collection of Gems, fine art and Old Master drawings at Chatsworth, and related projects ES worked on. It includes catalogues (both drafts and proofs), lists, working papers, research and reference notes, photographs, plates, correspondence, and related records.

Dates: 1846 - 1990

Chatsworth papers, circa 1885-1910

 Sub-Series

Chatsworth papers, circa 1885-1910

Reference number: ES-PP/04
Scope and Contents This sub-series comprises material relating to ES's time as Librarian to the Dukes of Devonshire (1904-1909) and, before that, her husband S. Arthur Strong's time in the post (1895-1904, his death). It also includes a small amount of correspondence which predates Arthur's librarianship, including periods in the 1880s in which the 7th Duke of Devonshire's daughter Lady Louisa Egerton (1835-1907) was acting as librarian and family archivist. The materials in this sub-series include...
Dates: circa 1885-1910

Drawer Collection

 Sub-Series

Drawer Collection

Reference number: ES-PH/02
Scope and Contents 21 boxes of photographic materials spanning a wide range of subjects, places, and organisations. This sub-series is so called because during Strong's lifetime, its constituent records were originally housed in 2 chests of drawers (total 8 drawers). The bulk of materials in this collection relate to Roman art, sculpture, and antiquities in or originating from Italy, but it also features material from/relating to the Melchett Collection (UK; see also ES-PP-03.01., ES's draft...
Dates: 1870 - 1943

Malta -- Art and architecture in Roman provinces -- Catalogues and art collections

 Sub-Series

Malta -- Art and architecture in Roman provinces -- Catalogues and art collections

Reference number: ES-PH/06
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises three boxes of photographs and photographic prints, relating to archaeological sites and landscapes in Malta (ES-PH/06/01), Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, sculpture, architectural elements, and decorations from ancient Roman provinces in Italy, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Germany (ES-PH/06/02).

Dates: 1870 - 1943

Minor arts

 Sub-Series

Minor arts

Reference number: ES-PH/08
Scope and Contents

Box containing photographs relating to the minor arts, featuring objects such as art & crafts, reliquaries, ivory objects, gold objects. Many photos come from collections held in Sicily, at the Louvre, and at the Ville de Bourges.

Dates: 1870 - 1943

Papers, 1846 - 1990

 Series

Papers, 1846 - 1990

Reference number: ES-PP
Scope and Contents This series comprises Eugénie Sellers Strong's personal papers, including her correspondence, records relating to the administration and the Library of the BSR, catalogues of private collections and libraries (by ES and others), records relating to ES's time as Librarian to the Dukes of Devonshire (1904-1909), working papers, lectures, research notes, publications, works-in-progress, and a number of unpublished works and translations by ES. The correspondence in this series is...
Dates: 1846 - 1990

Photograph Collection, 1870 - 1943

 Series

Photograph Collection, 1870 - 1943

Reference number: ES-PH
Scope and Contents This series comprises Strong's personal collections of photographic and related visual materials, spanning 13 sub-series. It covers a vast range of subjects, artistic schools and styles, artistic / architectural / archaeological paradigms, and geographical locations. The material contained herein includes: images for publications, including Paul Arndt and Walther Amelung's 'Photographische Einzelaufnahmen Antiker Sculpturen' (1893); Roman and Greek sculpture and statuary; artworks;...
Dates: 1870 - 1943