The Life and Work of Charles Bell (Including The Art of Charles Bell : An Appraisal by Godby, M. )

The Life and Work of Charles Bell (Including The Art of Charles Bell : An Appraisal by Godby, M. )

Simons, Phillida Brooke

Published by Fernwood Press (1998). ISBN 10: 1874950342. ISBN 13: 9781874950342. First Edition. Burgundy boards with gilt device to front board and gilt titles to spine. Landscape format. Hard cover. 176 pp. Profusely illustrated in colour.

Book Condition:

Good + . Dust Jacket Condition: Good + . Lamination of the dust-jacket rubbed. 15 cm closed tear in the rear panel of the dust-jacket. 2 cm closed tear in the rear panel of the dust-jacket. Corners significanly bumped.

“Charles Davidson Bell - artist, land surveyor, designer of stamps, medals and silverware - was a man of many and varied talents. His contribution to the aesthetic social and commercial life of nineteenth-century Cape Town was enormous, yet for a hundred years after his death very little was known about him. The return of much of his oeuvre from England to Cape Town in 1978 has enabled historians and art historians to appreciate much of his work, and now this publication reveals even more to the world at large.

Meticulously researched text is complemented by some 130 of Bell's most appealing sketches and paintings, many of which show his quirky sense of humour. His sensitive depictions of the heterogeneous population of Cape Town and of the indigenous peoples he encountered on the expedition to the Tropic of Capricorn are a valuable record of life in nineteenth-century South Africa.

An in-depth appraisal of Bell's diverse creations by Professor Michael Godby completes this portrayal of a remarkable man. “

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