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Archives related to: Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham, 1905-
| title | Ellis K. Waterhouse notebooks and research files, 1801-1987 (bulk 1924-1979). | repository | The Getty Research Institute |
| description | Collection documents Waterhouse’s scholarly career. A major part of the archive consists of 67 notebooks, maintained from 1924 until his death in 1985, in which he recorded in detail every work of art seen in his travels in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Research files include notes, draft catalogues, essays, lectures, photographs, annotated printed catalogues (mainly of British collections), and correspondence with art historians, curators, collectors and dealers. The subject matter covered includes British country houses, Reynolds, Gainsborough, El Greco, Italy and Italian Baroque art. There are a few personal items, such as photographs of Waterhouse’s family. Included are photocopies of diaries (originals 1852-1857) thought to be the diaries of Sir Charles Eastlake, former Director of the National Gallery, London. The papers are part of a vast collection of materials acquired from the Waterhouse estate by the Getty, and complement the Waterhouse library, now part of the Getty Center’s Research Library. The notebooks are on deposit from the Provenance Index, Getty Research Institute. The photographs from the Waterhouse collection that complement the archival research files are available as an intact collection within the repository’s Photo Study Collection, accn. no 86.P.6. |
| extent | 15 linear ft. (34 boxes). |
| formats | Notebooks Photographs Correspondence |
| access | Open for use by qualified researchers. |
| record link | http://archives2.getty.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/870204/870204.xml;query=;brand=default |
| record source | http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cat104682 |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in the repository and on the repository's Web site: folder level control. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:29:48 |
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