This Favoured Land: Edward King-Tenison and Lady Louisa in Spain, 1850-1853 Contributor(s): Fontanella, Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 3034322089 ISBN-13: 9783034322089 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $73.31 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Techniques - General - Biography & Autobiography |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017007742 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.94 lbs) 178 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the wake of the Irish potato famine, Edward King-Tenison, a sometime Irish politician of the liberal order and one of the first masterful photographers of Spain, and his wife, Lady Louisa Mary Anne Anson, the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, left their estate of Kilronan in County Roscommon, Ireland, to reside and travel in Andalusia and, later, in Castile. The remarkable adventure on which these Irish nobles embarked in mid-nineteenth-century Spain led to a husband-and-wife team of astonishing cultural production. While Tenison focused on photography, Lady Louisa chronicled their travels, producing sketches and establishing relations on an international level with other artists, who collaborated in her illustrated chronicle. This book documents the fascinating travels of this couple and presents their work to a new readership. |