This Favoured Land: Edward King-Tenison and Lady Louisa in Spain, 1850-1853

by Lee Fontanella

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In the wake of the Irish potato famine, Edward King-Tenison, a sometime Irish politician of the liberal order and one of the first masterful photographers of Spain, and his wife, Lady Louisa Mary Anne Anson, the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, left their estate of Kilronan in County Roscommon, Ireland, to reside and travel in Andalusia and, later, in Castile. The remarkable adventure on which these Irish nobles embarked in mid-nineteenth-century Spain led to a husband-and-wife team of astonishing cultural production. While Tenison focused on photography, Lady Louisa chronicled their travels, producing sketches and establishing relations on an international level with other artists, who collaborated in her illustrated chronicle. This book documents the fascinating travels of this couple and presents their work to a new readership.

  • ISBN13 9781787078789
  • Publish Date 20 November 2017 (first published 25 August 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Peter Lang Ltd
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 178
  • Language English