An Iconography: The Portraits of T.E. Lawrence
California, USA: The Otterden Press, 1988. Tall octavo, burgundy cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, 144 pp., colour tipped-in frontispiece, four double-sided colour plates, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs of artworks of Lawrence throughout including paintings, sketches and sculptures. Foxing on dust-jacket with wear on edges; otherwise a fine and clean copy with a very good dust-jacket. Second American edition, number 566 of a limited edition of 1000 copies, signed by the author. This illuminating collections of portraits of T. E. Lawrence offers a unique visual biography of the man. It features two comprehensive overviews of the multitude of Lawrence portraits created by Augustus John and Eric Henri Kennington, as well as portraits by a selection of other artists including J. Cosmo Clark, Colin Gill, Sir William Orpen, Kathleen (Lady Kennet) Scott and Henry S. Tuke. Grosvenor introduces the collection and covers the details of each work, listing the medium, dimensions, date created and location. Lawrence's complex persona and heroic history clearly offered much inspiration to these artists, as well as numerous writers from the early Twentieth Century to present day. O'Brien, E351a. Item #4850
Price (AUD): $190.00