Clarence’s artistic endeavours flourished when he could combine his creativity and botanical knowledge with his design skills. Instead of having a standard book for signatures of the many visitors to the Casa Fontanalba (in 10 years he had over 250 visitors who made their way up the mountain road), he illustrated in advance each right-hand […]
Aquilegia alpina in the Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book Read More »
In our regular postings on Facebook, occasionally here, we have featured at least three times Clarence’s watercolour designs based on the fritillary. It’s an extrordinarily beautiful bell-shaped brightly-patterned wild flower of the Alps – all its varieties inspired Clarence to exceptional artistic creations.This article brings his various fritillary creations on one page, and photos by
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The Book of Guests in Esperanto by Clarence Bicknell is published today in text form. We provide a transcription of the Esperanto original and the English translation. A reproduction of each page is available to students and researchers on application (info@clarencebicknell.com). Clarence wrote in this small vellum-bound album his notes in Esperanto on guests who
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I am grateful to Mark Howard, whaling history expert who got in touch with us in 2017, for forwarding today a photo taken in 1949 published in October 2010 by the LCC Photograph Library at the London Metropolitan Archives. The text to the photo there reads as follows: QUOTE – Shops in Newington Butts: View
Elhanan Bicknell’s whale oil refinery in London; the site identified. Read More »
We are pleased to be able to publish this interesting paper by my cousin Ian Fraser. David Roberts was his great great great great grandfather ands his daughter Christine (1821-1872) married Henry Sanford Bicknell (1818-1880) who like his father Ehanan loved collecting art. Ian recovered Roberts’ lost journal of 1851-1860 from among his father’s papers
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Luca Barale writes “I have also find out that Clarence sent a collection of Pliocene fossils collected in the Bordighera neighbourhood to Federico Sacco, geologist and palaeontologist based in Torino, who studied them and published them in the huge, 30-volumes work “I Molluschi dei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria”. Sacco also dedicated a
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NEWS – Edward Berry conference, Bordighera, 1 June 2013 Just back from the conference about my great grand unce Edward Elhanan Berry (1861-1931) and his wife Margaret in the Museo Clarence Bicknell, presided by Professor Dott. Daniela Gandolfi. I presented some original research on the Berrys drawn from family papers which I have, including the
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NEWS – Edward Berry conference, Bordighera, 1 June 2013 Welcome The Man Biography MARVELS – index of the book Chronology Writing Bordighera Casterino The Church Bibliography Botanist Artist Casa Fontanalba Arts and Crafts Painting & drawing Collecting Archaeologist Archaeology Les Merveilles Appreciation Esperantist Esperanto Hymns Poems Documents News & views Association 2018 Centenary Books Events
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