From Drury Lane To Mecca By Eric Rosenthal
From Drury Lane To Mecca By Eric Rosenthal
Hardcover
ISBN 0869781790
Publisher: Howard Timmins Ltd 1982
Used – Near Fine. This book is in mint condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Pink cloth boards. 261pp illustrated 8vo. Churchward was a professional painter of stage sets. He worked also in Australia & South Africa. His conversion to Islam and his visit to Mecca were unique for his time. His paintings of the Forbidden City are in the possession of Witwatersrand University.
From Drury Lane to Mecca is the story of Hedley Churchward, scion of a distinguished old English family and a painter of stage sets, whose professional fame brought him into personal contact with Queen Victoria, with the poet Tennyson and with other celebrities.