Elizabeth Butler

An Autobiography

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Produktbeschreibung

This brisk and amusing 1922 autobiography by the military painter Elizabeth Butler (1848â 1933), illustrated with her own sketches, takes the reader from her peripatetic childhood through her artistic success to her life and travels as the wife of a soldier and the mother of five children.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781108081283
• ISBN-10: 1108081282
• Artikelnr.: 42204060

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. First impressions
2. Early youth
3. More travel
4. In the art schools
5. Study in Florence
6. Rome
7. War: battle paintings
8. 'The Roll Call'
9. Echoes of 'The Roll Call'
10. More work and play
11. To Florence and back
12. Again in Italy
13. A soldier's wife
14. Queen Victoria
15. Official life: the east
16. To the east
17. More of the east
18. The last of Egypt
19. Aldershot
20. Italy again
21. The Dover command
22. The Cape and Devonport
23. A new reign
24. Mostly a Roman diary
25. The Great War
Index.