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

by I. Lilias Trotter

In October 1876, twenty-three-year-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 Venice--where she met the famed John Ruskin, Victorian England'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 Lilias's talent,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938068106
• ISBN13: 9781938068102
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxvision Books
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"