Clarence Bicknell’s Book of Guests in Esperanto is a masterpiece of dedication and arts-and-crafts talent in watercolours, published in book form worldwide.. Published July 2022 on Amazon and in selected bookshops. Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918) built his summer house, the Casa Fontanalba, in the Italian Maritime Alps in 1906, and year-after-year created hand-drawn vellum-bound albums featuring […]
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Postcard from Clarence Bicknell to Emile Cartailhac, April 1911, in the archives of Toulouse University. With thanks to Helen Blancfrancard for finding it and sending us the link. VersoCard postmarked 11th April 1911, over a green stamp of the Bordighera Esperanto Group Antauen. Sent to Le Prof. Emile Cartailhac, 5 rue de la Chaine, Toulouse,
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104 years ago today, 17 July 1918, was a sunny day in Casterino. Luigi Pollini carried Clarence Bicknell out onto the terrace of his ‘cottage’ where he died peacefully, in the surroundings which he loved, encircled by the mountains which he knew as ‘The Gate of Heaven’. Luigi was not just someone in Clarence Bicknell’s
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If you live within driving distance of Bordighera you have a few more days in which to see a remarkable exhibition linked to Clarence Bicknell. It was indeed in the Chiesa Anglicana that he first practiced on arrival in the town in 1878, albeit a smaller church then than now. Gisella Merello, historian and writer,
I WILL BE TO THEM A LITTLESANCTUARY IN THE COUNTRIESWHERE THEY SHALL COME At the request of Gisella Merello, author of her new book La Chiesa Anglicana di All Saints a Bordighera (Alzani Editore), I helped decypher this worn inscription above the church door. This is a rendering into useful “title” English of a significant
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Clarence’s favourite flower, the humble Dandelion, in one of the vellum-bound albums by Clarence Bicknell in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. No.59 in our series of postings of images by Clarence Bicknell. https://bit.ly/37iy8AU12 This image by Clarence Bicknell of the humble dandelion in a majestic arts-and-crafts pose is one of his most iconic. The symmetrical pattern
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We received today copies of the latest edition of Nice Historique, the journal of the Acadèmia Nissarda. It features the Botanistes aux Sommets, botanists who were also alpinists, including Clarence Bicknell and some of his friends like Emile Burnat and Fritz Mader. Some of the text and images are drawn from the exhibition of the
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A decorative floral design from his Book of Guests in Esperanto written and drawn by Clarence Bicknell between 1910 and 1918. Clarence Bicknell wrote a page in Esperanto about each visitor and decorated the page with a botanical drawing, often developing the guest’s initial into a monogram. In the Bicknell Collection curated by Marcus Bicknell
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The Children’s Book of Wild Flowers by Clarence Bicknell has watercolour drawings of four flowers on the righthand page and their description on the lefthand page. The first letter of the genus is illustrated with a monogram drawing from features of the plant. The hand-written and -illustrated book is in the Bicknell family collection curated
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MARVELS: The Life of Clarence Bicknell,Botanist, Archaeologist, Artist. By Valerie Lester REDUCED PRICE OFFER £10 (approx €11.50 or $12.75) by transfer, PayPal or card at www.clarencebicknell.com/shop A treasure trove of research discoveries enlightens Valerie Lester’s biography of the captivating scientist and artist, Clarence Bicknell. Over 5 years, Lester pored over hundreds of newly-discovered letters, botanical
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