This is the first full-scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell, including the first catalogue of all known Brontë illustrations, published and unpublished. The Art of the Brontës comprises 400 illustrated entries, recording such details as medium, dating, provenance, sources, style, and arguments for attribution; and documenting many previously unknown drawings and paintings. In addition, a sequence of narrative chapters provides new material on each of the four Brontë siblings and their relationships to the visual arts, suggesting ways in which their experience of drawing influenced their writing. An annotated and illustrated catalogue which is also a work of scholarly criticism, this publication is a landmark in Brontë studies and in the fields of nineteenth-century literature and painting generally.
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'Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars have done their work faultlessly. Scholarly and exhaustive, this book will prove a valuable resource to anyone interested in the Brontës. ... a comprehensive cataloguing of hitherto unavailable, unknown material which throws astonishing new light on familiar territory. Our view of the Brontës will never be the same again.' Literary Review
'... a superb resource'. The Times Higher Education Supplement
'... a very valuable addition to the Brontë canon'. Yorkshire Journal '[a] thoughtful, important and authoritative book.' Yorkshire Post
'... delightful and thoroughly researched'. The Art Newspaper
'... a superb resource'. The Times Higher Education Supplement
'... a very valuable addition to the Brontë canon'. Yorkshire Journal '[a] thoughtful, important and authoritative book.' Yorkshire Post
'... delightful and thoroughly researched'. The Art Newspaper
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'Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars have done their work faultlessly. Scholarly and exhaustive, this book will prove a valuable resource to anyone interested in the Brontës. The vast majority of the sketches, paintings and doodles that fill these pages have never been published before, let alone been so painstakingly annotated. Here we have a comprehensive cataloguing of hitherto unavailable, unknown material which throws astonishing new light on familiar territory. Our view of the Brontës will never be the same again.' Literary Review
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blue spotted wallpaper, gum arabic glaze, green leather folder, inlaid workbox, embossed watermark, two male portraits, further provenance, rear pastedown, sketch occupies, drawing occupies, wicket fence, minuscule script, three other drawings, illustration occupies, sketch block, minuscule hand, watercolour copy, small pencil drawings, loose drawings, portable writing desk, palm squirrel, tiny sketch, blue paper cover, drawing manuals, centre foreground Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Parsonage Museum, Roe Head, Arthur Bell Nicholls, Martha Brown, Ellen Nussey, Bequest of Henry Houston Bonnell, Patrick Branwell, Thorp Green, Basil Blackwell, Wuthering Heights, Thomas James Wise, New York, Christine Alexander, Society Transactions, Thomas Bewick, Leeds University Library, Joseph Bentley Leyland, Mary Anne Nicholls, Jane Eyre, History of British Birds, Alexander Percy, Descriptive Catalogue of Objects, Francis Brown, John Brown, Lord Brotherton New!
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blue spotted wallpaper, gum arabic glaze, green leather folder, inlaid workbox, embossed watermark, two male portraits, further provenance, rear pastedown, sketch occupies, drawing occupies, wicket fence, minuscule script, three other drawings, illustration occupies, sketch block, minuscule hand, watercolour copy, small pencil drawings, loose drawings, portable writing desk, palm squirrel, tiny sketch, blue paper cover, drawing manuals, centre foreground Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Parsonage Museum, Roe Head, Arthur Bell Nicholls, Martha Brown, Ellen Nussey, Bequest of Henry Houston Bonnell, Patrick Branwell, Thorp Green, Basil Blackwell, Wuthering Heights, Thomas James Wise, New York, Christine Alexander, Society Transactions, Thomas Bewick, Leeds University Library, Joseph Bentley Leyland, Mary Anne Nicholls, Jane Eyre, History of British Birds, Alexander Percy, Descriptive Catalogue of Objects, Francis Brown, John Brown, Lord Brotherton New!
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