Description |
1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
The Bretons of Bath -- Early years -- The freedom of travel -- The grand tour of Mexico -- Painting on the grand tour -- Refining the focus -- Teopancaxco : the art of recording the ruins -- Pablo -- Sorting out -- Chichén Itzá -- Life begins at fifty -- The extraordinary undertaking : the murals in the upper Temple of the Jaguars -- The professionalization of Adela -- Don Alfredo -- The 1902 Congress of Americanists -- Back to work -- Dredging the Cenote -- The passing of Pablo -- Drawing and dredging -- Adela at work -- Acanceh: The palace of the stuccoes -- Study abroad -- A scholar, not a painter -- Organizing an international meeting -- The 1912 Congress of Americanists -- Aftermath -- The manuscript collectors -- The onset of the war -- In search of health -- Home again -- Last travels |
Summary |
Mary McVicker relates the story of Adela Breton, a Victorian gentlewoman who spent a lifetime of travel, exploring past cultures and landscapes in Mexico. She tells of her independence from the strictures of Victorian life, as well as her career as an artist-archaeologist and the significance of her work |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references pages (215-216) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Breton, Adela, 1849-1923 -- Travel -- Mexico
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Breton, Adela, 1849-1923 fast |
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Breton, Adela. swd |
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Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Indian architecture -- Mexico.
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Women artists -- Mexico -- Biography
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Indians in art.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Antiquities
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Indian architecture
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Indians in art
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Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities
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Travel
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Women artists
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Kunst
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Mexico -- In art
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Mexico -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084538
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Mexico
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Mexiko
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Indianer.
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Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Art
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780826336804 |
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0826336809 |
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6613947849 |
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9786613947840 |
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1283635399 |
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9781283635394 |
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