Adela Breton: A Victorian Artist Amid Mexico's Ruins

Contents

List of Illustrations / vi chapter one The Bretons of Bath / 1 chapter two Early Years / 7 chapter three The Freedom of Travel / 13 chapter four The Grand Tour of Mexico / 19 chapter five Painting on the Grand Tour / 23 chapter six Refining the Focus / 29 chapter seven Teopancaxco: The Art of Recording the Ruins / 33 chapter eight Pablo / 45 chapter nine Sorting Out / 49 chapter ten Chichén Itzá / 53 chapter eleven Life Begins at Fifty / 61 chapter twelve The Extraordinary Undertaking: The Murals in the Upper Temple of the Jaguars / 65 chapter thirteen The Professionalization of Adela / 71 chapter fourteen Don Alfredo / 75 chapter fifteen The 1902 Congress of Americanists / 83 color plates / 91 chapter sixteen Back to Work / 107 chapter seventeen Dredging the Cenote / 117 chapter eighteen The Passing of Pablo / 123 chapter nineteen Drawing and Dredging / 127 chapter twenty Adela at Work / 131 chapter twenty-one Acanceh: The Palace of the Stuccoes / 137 chapter twenty-two Study Abroad / 141 chapter twenty-three A Scholar Not a Painter / 147 chapter twenty-four Organizing an International Meeting / 151 chapter twenty-five The 1912 Congress of Americanists / 161 chapter twenty-six Aftermath / 167 chapter twenty-seven The Manuscript “Collectors” / 173 chapter twenty-eight The Onset of the War / 183 chapter twenty-nine In Search of Health / 191 chapter thirty Home Again / 197 chapter thirty-one Last Travels / 201 Epilogue / 205 Acknowledgments / 208 appendix a Locations of Paintings and Drawings / 210 appendix b Archival Materials / 211 Notes / 211 Bibliography / 215 Index / 217 Contents ...