The Painted Voyage: Art, Travel and Exploration 1564-1875
London: British Museum Press, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Near Fine / Fine. Item #007656
Full blue-grey cloth. 160 pp. With 64 colour and 42 B&W illustrations. Sunning to spine and edges of boards. Very minor bumps to edges of dust jacket, else fine. The Painted Voyage looks at the ways in which travelling artists influenced early western attitudes toward distant lands, and examines how far the artist's own vision of these places was a distorted one, affected by factors as diverse as changing artistic fashions, the demands of colonial propaganda and the frequent need to work from memory. Jacobs' lively, good-humoured text contains a wealth of anecdotes realting to the adventures of these intrepid figures and the peculiar difficulties with which they were faced when travelling beyond the well-trodden path.
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