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An Artist´s War: The Art and Letters of Morris and Alice Meredith Williams
Phyllida Shaw
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Description for An Artist´s War: The Art and Letters of Morris and Alice Meredith Williams
Hardback. An Artist's War Num Pages: 272 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; ACXD; AGB; BJ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 250. .
WHEN the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor, and earning his living from book illustration and teaching. A short man, his attempt to join the army in 1914 failed, but six months later he was accepted by the 17th Battalion, The Welsh Regiment, the first Bantam battalion to be raised in Wales. From June 1916, he spent ten months in and out of the trenches of the Western Front near Loos, Arras and the Somme, later mapping enemy positions from aerial reconnaissance shots with the ... Read more
WHEN the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor, and earning his living from book illustration and teaching. A short man, his attempt to join the army in 1914 failed, but six months later he was accepted by the 17th Battalion, The Welsh Regiment, the first Bantam battalion to be raised in Wales. From June 1916, he spent ten months in and out of the trenches of the Western Front near Loos, Arras and the Somme, later mapping enemy positions from aerial reconnaissance shots with the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750982382
SKU
V9780750982382
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Ref
99-50
About Phyllida Shaw
Phyllida Shaw was left Morris Meredith Williams' sketchbooks by his second wife, her great aunt. She has worked as a researcher and writer in the cultural sector for thirty years. As a freelance journalist she has written for Museums Journal, The Guardian, The Royal Academy Magazine and the journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, among others. She has ... Read more
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