The Amateur: Companion to Watercolour Paperback - 1992

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1985* Publisher: Sidgewick & Jackson.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card illustrated cover. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Annotations to verso showing authors details, no other inscriptions. Very slight colouration to page top edges. VG+* Illustrations: Colour & b/w paintings & reproductions throughout.* Pages: 143 pp. text. xv pp. Notes, lists, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- Lord Thorneycroft recalls with wit and insight his early steps in painting ? while serving as a member of Winston Churchill?s government. He draws on his past experience to suggest to others where to go and what to look for and, above all, how to enjoy painting. Urging us to look at the paintings of the masters, he matches his arguments with a superbly illustrated account of the painters, amateur as well as professional, of the British School, and discusses some of the lessons we can learn from them.* This is a VG+ copy with minimal shelf wear.*