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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Handwritten index added to back (none in original) with helpful note by reader. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Boden were trained first at the Lincoln School of Art. then at Antwerp. Another Lincoln born and trained artist William T. Warrener actually moved to Paris and showed his work at the Paris Salon. He became a member of Toulouse-Lautrec’s circle and his image appears in Lautrec’s ‘The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge’. Lautrec caught perfectly the appearance of a man later described as ‘an immaculate gentleman with a monocle’. He returned to Lincoln in 1904 and became the Society’s first Chairman. Two of Lincoln’s foremost industrialists Alfred Shuttleworth and Joseph Ruston had superb art collections featuring works by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and many Royal Academicians Shuttleworth’s home being on Lincoln’s Eastgate and Ruston’s being further east at Monks Manor. The Society would be born in Monks Manor and eventually hold most of its meetings. at Shuttleworth’s Eastgate Court which by the 1920’s was an hotel. Facing Eastgate Court on Cathedral Green was the powerful statue of Alfred Lord Tennyson with his wolfhound Karenina designed by George Frederick Watts who did not live to witness its unveiling by the Countess Brownlow in 1905. Many of the original members of the Society or the Lincolnshire Drawing Club as it was called at first must have been present at that event for many of them lived and worked around the Cathedral. (LL)