"Although many of the works in this superb publication appeared at the time in the Illustrated London News, for most readers this will be their first opportunity to see them in colour. Indeed, several of the sketches have never before been published in their original form – notably William Simpson’s drawing of Prince Alemayehou, which was executed only a few days after the death of his father, the Emperor Tewedros, and of whom very few images have been handed down to us. Readers are also treated to a number of fascinating tidbits, such as the methods practiced by publishers’ studio staff to enhance landscape sketches with the addition of human figures, and many will be intrigued to learn of the ‘cut and paste’ origins of the graphic cover used to illustrate John Pridham’s musical composition commemorating the battle. 
Professors Pankhurst and Northrup are to be congratulated not only for a succinct and readable presentation of the historical background, but for their insight into the relationship between Ethiopia and the outside world prevailing in the mid-19th century. Whereas previous writers have tended to portray events leading up to the ‘Abyssinian difficulty’ through European eyes; the reader can now begin to see them in the Ethiopian context. It is a sad irony that it is only in the 21st century that we begin to see that Tewedros’s cultural values had more in common with the pre-Renaissance world of Prester John than with post-industrial revolution Britain. Clearly the British government’s outrage at the imprisonment of its consul, and Napier’s subsequent refusal to accept anything less than total surrender – even after the release of the prisoners – would not have been anticipated or even understood by an essentially mediæval monarch. 
Both Ethiopianists and lovers of military art will be grateful to Frederic Sharf for a unique and important publication." Ian Campbell

Abyssinia 1867-1868: Artists on Campaign

Frederic A. Sharf

TSEHAI Publishers

Harry Bentley Bradley: American Automotive Design Innovator

Carl Renner: 1950s GM Dream Machine Car Creator

"A Celebration of America's enduring love affair with British Automobiles." From the year-long exhibit at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum, May 2012~May 2013. Hardcover, 8-3/4" x 11-1/4" (approx). Illustrated paper jacket, front & back. Back of d.j. features technical drawing of Humber Hawk Interior, 1945.

Britain Can Make It - Postwar Progress Through Determination, Innovation & Exportation

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

This beautiful volume contains selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The 39 sepia and tinted plates are introduced by three illustrated essays on photography and the Meiji Era in Japan: A Traveler s Paradise, by Frederic A. Sharf; Yokohama Shashin, by Sebastian Dobson; and Souvenirs of Old Japan : Meiji-Era Photography and the Meisho Tradition, by Anne Nishimura Morse.

Art and Artifice: Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era

Arts & Photography

Anne Nishimura Morse

Sebastian Dobson

Photography & Video

Mus. of Fine Arts (Boston)

To mark the centenary of the battle of Omdurman and the British conquest of the Sudan, this work presents previously unavailable accounts of the campaign alongside contemporary illustrations from artists and journalists present with the troops.

Omdurman 1898: The Eyewitnesses Speak: The British Conquest of the Sudan as Described by Participants in Letters, Diaries, Photos and Drawings

History

Peter Harrington

Africa

Greenhill Books

American Automobile Art: 1950-1970

Sharf, Frederic A.

Richard H. Arbib 1917-1995: Visionary American Designer

Newburyport Press

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