Phoebe Anna Traquair

Phoebe Anna Traquair

Phoebe Anna Traqauir (1852 – 1936) was an Irish artist, noted for her role in the Arts and Crafts movement, as an illustrator, painter and embroiderer.

She illuminated a book of "Sonnets from the Portuguese" by the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a key Arts and Crafts manuscript. A copy is held by the National Library of Scotland and an illumated manuscript is available on the Internet. [ [http://www.nls.uk/traquair/sonnets/index.html List of Sonnets from the Portuguese - Phoebe Anna Traquair - National Library of Scotland ] at www.nls.uk]

References

*Dr Elizabeth Cumming, "Phoebe Anna Traquair", 2005, National Galleries of Scotland/National Museums of Scotland

External links

* [http://www.mansfieldtraquair.org.uk/ Mansfield Traquair Trust]
* [http://www.nls.uk/traquair/artist.html Phoebe Anna Traquair profile, National Library of Scotland]


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