WHISHAW Collection
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: WHISHAW Collection
Classmark: LRA/MS 811
Date(s): 1823-2010s
Language: English; German; Russian
Size and medium: 454 ff, 9 vols, framed engraving; MS; TS; printed; photographs; negatives; engraving
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/20462
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
Photographs, copy prints and negatives of Whishaw and Anderson family portraits /1-11/. Photocopy of Whishaw and Anderson family tree /12/. James Whishaw (1853-1933) "Memoirs of James Whishaw" (London, 1935) /13/. Contact prints and negatives of 210 Whishaw family photographs /14-21/. Colour photograph and negative of watercolour of Whishaw house at Murino /22-23/. Photocopies of newspaper cuttings and reviews attached to Frances Adams' copy of James Whishaw "A History of the Whishaw Family" (London, 1935) /24/. W H Monk (ed) "Hymns Ancient and Modern" (London, 1875) (bound copy presented to Edith Henley (née Feild), Murino, 1887) /25/. Fragment of manuscript music, letter from Frances Henley to Phyllis Prickard (née Whishaw) (nd) (inserted in 25) /26-27/. Modern prints and negatives of Whishaw family album, Murino and England, 1901-1920s /28-29/. Contact prints and negatives of 26 Whishaw family photographs (some duplicates) /30-31/. James Whishaw "A History of the Whishaw Family"
(London, 1935/1992) /32/. L W G Drayton "An Addendum to A History of the Whishaw Family by James Whishaw" (Malpas, Cheshire, 1997) /33/. Additions to 33 /34-35/. M Holderness "New Russia: Journey from Riga to the Crimea [...]" (London, 1823) /36/. James Whishaw "A History of the Whishaw Family" (London, 1935) /37/. Photocopies and negatives of Whishaw and Bulley families photograph album and family-history material /38-39/. Photocopy of transcript of Moberly family history notebooks (including Cayley, Cattley, Whishaw et al) /40/. "Die Bibel [...] Martin Luthers" (Frankfurt/M, 1840) (ex libris Alexander Whishaw) /41/. "Sobranie russkikh pesen", 2 parts in 1 vol (Moscow, 1843) (ex libris Alexander Whishaw) /42/. Photographs of Whishaw dacha, Murino, [1880s?] /43-44/. Photocopies of Frederick Whishaw items from "St Peter's Parish Magazine" (Leckhampton), February & June 1888 /45-46/. Stella Arbenina (Baroness Meyendorff) "Freedom at Stake" (1945/1964) (includes photograph of author) /47-47A/.
Framed portrait of William Whishaw (1746-1838) (engraving after F B Barlin original) /48/. "Sokrovishcha russkoi zhivopisi" (SPb, [191?]) (46 colour reproductions of Russian paintings printed by S M Prokudin-Gorskii and published in aid of Komitet po organizatsii otriadov brat'ev miloserdiia vo imia Khrista) (also explanatory note by V Zakharov, 2003) /49-50/.
David Charles 'James Whishaw' (text of talk, Probus Club, Falmouth, 201?) /51/; Whishaw family tree /52/; scanned group photograph of James Whishaw & family /53/.
Provenance
Hawkins, Hugh (January 1987, January 1989); Adams, Frances (March 1988, March 1993); Drayton, Lance (June 1992, March & December 1997, February 1999, February 2001, August 2002, April 2004); Whishaw, Charles (October 1998, November 2005); Hawkins, Richard (October 1998); Miller, Eric (November 2003); Charles, David (July 2017)
Access and usage
Access
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