Woman behind the painter : the diaries of Rosalie, Mrs. James Clarke Hook
"Rosalie Hook's diaries of her doings at home and abroad with her painter husband, James Clarke Hook, provide a window on the Victorian art world. In her long marriage to Hook, Rosalie, herself an artist, recorded not only the striking events of their memorable two-year sojourn in Italy at the time of the Risorgimento, but kept a day-to-day record of their domestic and professional lives through five decades. Woman Behind the Painter comes illustrated with the Hooks' photographs, sketches, and paintings." "The Italy Diary is a full narrative, written with vivid details of their travel to the St. Bernard Pass and to Florence, Rome, Naples, Parma and Venice and ending with the Hooks' harrowing homeward journey, in an ill-equipped vessel between Venice and Gibraltar. The Silverbeck Diary is a much slenderer document, but it covers many more years. In this diary, Rosalie recorded the movements and professional activities of the Hook family and their dealings with artist friends." "Juliet McMaster's biographical and historical introduction and notes make for lively reading while she examines the Hooks' cultural experiences in the turbulent scene of excitement and revolution in Italy, and their busy professional life among such contemporary artists as Samuel Palmer, F.G. Stephens, Millais, Holman Hunt, Alfred Hunt, Birket Foster, and others."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, ©2006
diaries
clv, 246 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
9780888644374, 088864437X
63194763