Author: STARK, ROSE ISABELLA.
Title: Rose Isabella Stark's Alphabet.
Description: London: Pelham Books, 1979. 0720711525. "Rose Isabella Stark painted her alphabet in 1915 for her first grandchild..Exquisitely painted in watercolours on twenty-four boards, it has been a family treasure ever since. A gifted amateur married to a professional painter, Arthur James Stark..Rose Isabella included in her alphabet not only the things she knew would hold the interest of a little girl of four -K for King and Q for Queen, C for Cow and D for Dog - but also scenes and details from her own life, F for Field, for example, shos the field in which her husband was painting when she first met him; and her own lifeliong interest in painting from nature is revealed in every illustration." Beautiful watercolour illustrations throughout each with a blue border and poetical quotation to base of page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper reproduces the A for Apple page to front and rear. VG/VG.

Keywords: Rose Isabella Stark Alphabet Watercolour Illustrated Painting Nature Art


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