L’Homme des Merveilles – Clarence Bicknell
70 years after Clarence Bicknell’s death he was being referred to as L’Homme des Merveilles, the man who discovered the 11,000 rock […]
Astragalus and Burnat in the Book of Guests in Esperanto
Watercolour by Clarence Bicknell of Astragalus monspessulanus (genus Astragalus), native to S. Central & S. Europe to W. Ukraine, NW. Africa. Conservation; […]
Teaching sisters to draw
I was interested to get an email from Selby Whittingham on Thu, 19 Aug 2021 … Subject: Edward Lear and Clarence Bicknell […]
Aquilegia alpina in the Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book
Clarence’s artistic endeavours flourished when he could combine his creativity and botanical knowledge with his design skills. Instead of having a standard […]
Clarence’s inspiring fritillaries
In our regular postings on Facebook, occasionally here, we have featured at least three times Clarence’s watercolour designs based on the fritillary. […]
The Book of Guests in Esperanto – text published
The Book of Guests in Esperanto by Clarence Bicknell is published today in text form. We provide a transcription of the Esperanto […]
Elhanan Bicknell’s whale oil refinery in London; the site identified.
I am grateful to Mark Howard, whaling history expert who got in touch with us in 2017, for forwarding today a photo […]
Blog archive 2013
NEWS – Edward Berry conference, Bordighera, 1 June 2013. .Just back from the conference about my great grand unce Edward Elhanan Berry […]
Photo research: Alberto Pelloux and Clarence Bicknell
Our assumption has been that the well-known photo of Bicknell and Pelloux together was taken in the high mountains, maybe in the […]
David Roberts and the Royal Academy, by Ian Fraser
We are pleased to be able to publish this interesting paper by my cousin Ian Fraser. David Roberts was his great great […]