INSCRIBED TO ARTHUR HUGHES BY SUSAN LUSHINGTON
The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs.
London: Reproduced by Henri Piazza et Cie for the Fine Arts Society, 1905.
Price: $14,500.00
About the item
Number 203 of 300 copies, signed "F.A.S." (Fine Art Society). Printed in red and green. With 38 colour plates and 4 pages of facsimile manuscript. Folio (10 x 13 inches). Bound in full green morocco. Inscribed on the ffep "Mr. Hughes from Susan Lushington Kingsley June 1912.".
Item #321703
Susan Lushington was the daughter of Vernon Lushington who introduced Edward Burne-Jones to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was known for her eccentricities and her photographs.
She has here inscribed this copy to artist and family friend Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) who painted a portrait of Susan's sister, Jane. Kitty, the third sister was the model for Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.
