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1925. Offered here is an original autograph presentation on a single card, by the Lady Kathleen Scott, widow of Robert Falcon Scott, famed Antarctic explorer, along with a black and white photo (modern) composed by Robert Falcon Scott with his wife Kathleen, and the two mounted onto black construction paper. The card is signed by Kathleen Scott as "Kathleen Hilton Young, formerly Lady Scott" with the addition "Very glad to send you the autographs you want 5/4/25." Lady Edith Agnes Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennett, (1878-1947) was a renowned British sculptor who, throughout her life, remained a traditional sculptor and worked independently of contemporary artistic developments such as modernism and abstraction. Described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "the most significant and prolific British women sculptor before Barbara Hepworth,î while her traditional style of sculpture and her hostility to the abstract work of Henry Moore, and others, contributed toward a subsequent lack of…
Read More Self-Portrait of an Artist: From the Diaries and Memoirs of Lady Kennet by Lady Scott, Kathleen - 1949
by Lady Scott, Kathleen
Self-Portrait of an Artist: From the Diaries and Memoirs of Lady Kennet
by Lady Scott, Kathleen
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- Hardcover
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London: John Murray, 1949 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 368 pp, list of b&w illustrations, Introduction by the Author; Autobiography; Diaries; index. First Edition, 1949. "Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, (1878-1947) was a British sculptor. She was the wife of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the mother of Sir Peter Scott, the painter and ornithologist. By her second marriage, to Edward Hilton Young, she became Baroness Kennet, and mother to the writer and politician Wayland Hilton Young." In mylar protector. Inked name on ffep. Only the slightest external wear with faintly foxed endpapers, and lightly age-toned text block edges. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth with black lettering to spines..
- Bookseller West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher John Murray
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1949
- Keywords ART HISTORY BRITISH WOMEN SCULPTORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY LADY SCOTT KATHLEEN (1878-1947) DIARIES AND MEMOIRS
- Size 8vo