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Author McVicker, Mary Frech.

Title Adela Breton [electronic resource] : a Victorian artist amid Mexico's ruins / Mary F. McVicker.

Imprint Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2005.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vi, 218 p. : ill. (some col.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references p. (215-216) and index.
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 -- Chichen Itza -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Breton, Adela, 1849-1923 -- Travel -- Mexico.
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
Indian architecture -- Mexico.
Women artists -- Mexico -- Biography.
Indians in art.
Mexico -- In art.
Mexico -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0826336787 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780826336804 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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