From Sketch-Book and Diary: With Twenty-Eight Illustrations in Colour and Twenty-One Small Sketches in the Text by the Author

by Elizabeth Butler

Overview

Elizabeth Butler (née Thompson, 1846–1933) and her sister, the poet Alice Meynell, were educated at home by their wealthy father, and much of their childhood was spent in Italy. Elizabeth began to train as an artist at the Female School of Art, South Kensington, in 1866, and became famous for her work in the genre (unusual for a woman) of military art. In this illustrated work of 1909, dedicated to her sister, she recalls time spent in Ireland, Egypt, and the Cape of Good Hope. On some of these travels she was accompanying her soldier husband, while others were taken for pleasure. Her final reminiscences are of Italy, from both her childhood and her later artistic career. Her diary, and letters to her mother, provide much of the text, but the colour illustrations (which can be viewed at www.cambridge.org/9781108081306, under 'Resources') are an equally important feature of the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108081306
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/31/2017
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.58(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Dedication; Part I. In the West of Ireland: 1. Glenaragh; 2. County Mayo in 1905; Part II. Egypt: 1. Cairo; 2. The upper Nile; 3. Alexandria; Part III. The Cape: 1. To the Cape; 2. At Rosebank, Cape Colony; Part IV. Italy: 1. Vintage-time in Tuscany; 2. Sienna, Perugia, and Vesuvius; 3. Rome; Index.