Facsimile Edition: Lilias Trotter's 1876 Sketchbook: Scenes

Facsimile Edition: Lilias Trotter's 1876 Sketchbook: Scenes from Lucerne to Venice

In October 1876, twenty-threeâ€“yearâ€“old Lilias began, with her mother, a trip to Venice, Italy. While in Lucerne, Lilias purchased a sketchbook in which she recorded the journey along the carriage roads to Veniceâ€”where she met the famed John Ruskin, Victorian Englandâ€™s arbiter of artistic taste and the author, no less, of The Stones of Venice, the definitve artistic and architectural history of the city. Ruskin, impressed by young Liliasâ€™s talent, took it upon himself to educate her untrained eye, escorting her through the Grand Canal to view paintings and architecture, providing instruction in art which would continue in England. This facsimile edition of the sketchbook she carried to Venice and, no doubt, on sketching trips with John Ruskin, reveals first her untrained artistic talentâ€”the discovery of which Ruskin declared in his 1884 â€œArt of Englandâ€ lecture to be â€œabout the only thing that makes me content in having gone there.â€ And it contains views of Venice most likely instructed by the master himself.
Country USA
Manufacturer Oxvision Books
Binding Paperback
EANs 9781938068102
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Facsimile Edition: Lilias Trotter's 1876 Sketchbook: Scenes from Lucerne to Venice