Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake: With Facsimiles of her Drawings and a Portrait

by Elizabeth Eastlake, Charles Eastlake Smith (Editor)

Overview

Later known as Lady Eastlake, the writer Elizabeth Rigby (1809–93) travelled widely in her early years, and subsequently moved in the highest literary and artistic circles. After an illness in 1827 she was taken abroad to recover, and her encounters with European art led to her writing career. In 1849, she married the painter Charles Eastlake, who became the director of the National Gallery and president of the Royal Academy. Continuing to write, especially for the Quarterly Magazine, on literature and art, she spent part of each year touring galleries and private collections across Europe. This engaging two-volume work of 1895, edited by her nephew and full of shrewd judgements on art and on people, is compiled from her journals and letters. Volume 1 describes Eastlake's early life: the extracts from her journals end in 1854 with her impressions of the reopening of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108074261
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/24/2014
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

19. 1854; 20. 1854–5; 21. 1855; 22. 1856–8; 23. 1859; 24. 1860; 25. 1861–3; 26. 1864; 27. 1865–70; 28. 1871–5; 29. 1876–8; 30. 1879–85; 31. 1886–91; 32. 1892–3; Index.