Lady Butler: Painting, Travel and War

by Catherine Wynne

A 'recovery' project drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, this is the first biography of Victorian Britain's famous war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler. She transformed war art by depicting conflict trauma, decades before its designation as a medical condition. Married to an officer in the British army, she traveled with her husband's military postings. Her art is prescient in its concern about the implications of foreign military intervention...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846826497
• ISBN13: 9781846826498
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 10.6"