We were pleased to get an email today from Anura Saparamadu in Sri Lanka. “My name is Anura Saparamadu and I am an art historian and writer from Sri Lanka. I published a book on Vintage Posters of Ceylon a few years ago which has now become one of the most sought after reference books […]
Clarence Bicknell sketches in Ceylon in 1908 Read More »
The interest in our recently-published reproduction of Clarence Bicknell’s “Book of Guests in Esperanto” continues to throw up interesting snippets of detail. Graham Avery has been writing notes on all the famous botanists who visited the Casa Fontanalba; many of them were honoured with an entry in the “Book of Guests in Esperanto”. Of a
“C. Werner, friend of Dr Mader, who came with him to visit us”, 1906 Read More »
Eldonita en julio 2022 kaj nun havebla, tutmonde, de Amazon, aŭ en certaj librovendejoj kaj ankaŭ de old.clarencebicknell.com/shop se vi loĝas en Britio. The Book of Guests in Esperanto estas majstroverko de sindediĉo kaj talento de la stilo arts-and-crafts en akvareloj de talenta kaj distra multesciulo de la malfrua 19-a jarcento. Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918) konstruis
La Gastolibro de Clarence Bicknell en Esperanto Read More »
Clarence Bicknell’s Book of Guests in Esperanto is a masterpiece of dedication and arts-and-crafts talent in watercolours, published in book form worldwide.. Published July 2022 on Amazon and in selected bookshops. Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918) built his summer house, the Casa Fontanalba, in the Italian Maritime Alps in 1906, and year-after-year created hand-drawn vellum-bound albums featuring
Clarence Bicknell’s Book of Guests in Esperanto – published July 2022 Read More »
104 years ago today, 17 July 1918, was a sunny day in Casterino. Luigi Pollini carried Clarence Bicknell out onto the terrace of his ‘cottage’ where he died peacefully, in the surroundings which he loved, encircled by the mountains which he knew as ‘The Gate of Heaven’. Luigi was not just someone in Clarence Bicknell’s
Clarence’s death and Luigi’s Forget-Me-Not Read More »
Clarence’s favourite flower, the humble Dandelion, in one of the vellum-bound albums by Clarence Bicknell in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. No.59 in our series of postings of images by Clarence Bicknell. https://bit.ly/37iy8AU12 This image by Clarence Bicknell of the humble dandelion in a majestic arts-and-crafts pose is one of his most iconic. The symmetrical pattern
The Dandelion – Clarence’s favourite plant Read More »
We received today copies of the latest edition of Nice Historique, the journal of the Acadèmia Nissarda. It features the Botanistes aux Sommets, botanists who were also alpinists, including Clarence Bicknell and some of his friends like Emile Burnat and Fritz Mader. Some of the text and images are drawn from the exhibition of the
Nice Historique – Les Botanistes aux Sommets Read More »
A decorative floral design from his Book of Guests in Esperanto written and drawn by Clarence Bicknell between 1910 and 1918. Clarence Bicknell wrote a page in Esperanto about each visitor and decorated the page with a botanical drawing, often developing the guest’s initial into a monogram. In the Bicknell Collection curated by Marcus Bicknell
Margaret = Margherita = Daisy Read More »
The Children’s Book of Wild Flowers by Clarence Bicknell has watercolour drawings of four flowers on the righthand page and their description on the lefthand page. The first letter of the genus is illustrated with a monogram drawing from features of the plant. The hand-written and -illustrated book is in the Bicknell family collection curated
Gentians in The Children’s Book of Wild Flowers by Clarence Bicknell Read More »
Clarence Bicknell created this symmetrical pattern in one of the vellum-bound albums now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It’s the Solanum linnaeanum Hepper & P. – Genus Solanum Family: Solanaceae, which includes food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). The family contains also nightshades (Solanum dulcamara) and
Clarence Bicknell – symmetrical Solanum Read More »
