Adela Breton
Adela Breton
Adela Catherine Breton (1849 – June 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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