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

In this illustrated 1909 work, painter Elizabeth Butler recalls time in Ireland, Egypt, the Cape of Good Hope, and Italy.

Elizabeth Butler (Author)

9781108081306, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 August 2017

246 pages, 21 b/w illus. 28 colour illus.
21.8 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]