Adela Breton
Adela Catherine Breton (1849-1923) was an English archaeological artist and explorer. She made watercolour copies of the wall paintings of Mexican temples, notably those of the Upper Temple of Jaguars at Chichen Itza.
A collection of her work is held in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, where a digitisation project was started in 2014 so that the fragile rolls of paintings can be preserved and made available for research.[1]
Some of her correspondence with Ella Lewis of Philadelphia is held in Harvard University Library.[2]
References
- ↑ Giles, Sue; Harland, Valerie (13 November 2014). "Digitisation of the Adela Breton collection at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery". The Public Catalogue. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
- ↑ "Breton, Adela, (1849-1923), Correspondence, 1915-1923, bulk: A Finding Aid". Harvard University Library. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
Further reading
- McVicker, Mary French (2005). Adela Breton: A Victorian Artist Amid Mexico's Ruins. UNM Press. ISBN 9780826336781.
- Baigent, Elizabeth (2004). "Breton, Adela Catherine (1849–1923)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 Nov 2014.
External links
- Devlin, Kate (16 May 2013). "Adela Catherine Breton (1849-1923): A Career in Ruins". TrowelBlazers. Retrieved 18 November 2014. Includes image of Breton which cannot be copied into this article for copyright reasons
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