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Artwork of Blanche McManus

Little is known regarding this artist, except that she was born in East Feliciania Parish, Louisiana, in 1870, studied in London and Paris, and travelled with writer/husband, Francis Miltoun (Mansfield), throughout Europe and North Africa around the turn of the century.  Their collaboration led to a series of travel books, fully illustrated by McManus.  On these next few web pages are part of the many illustrations she executed for these books, many as watercolors, while the majority were pen-and-ink and charcoal sketches.  Her work is little known, but it exemplifies the best tradition of Arts and Crafts artwork of the time.

Series 001: Scenes of castles and chateaux of Navarre  (southern France) and the Basque Region.

from the book:
Castles and Chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces.
Written by Francis Miltoun and illustrated by Blanche McManus. Boston:
L.C. Page & Co. 1907.

Click on any image to see a larger sample image:

 

001.001
Chateau de Pau

001.002
Chateau de
 Lourdes

001.003
Biarritz
 

001.004
Chateau
Roussillon

001.005
Chateau de
Foix

001.006
Axat

001.007
Collioure

001.008
A Peasant Girl
of the Ariege


001.009
 Villefranche

001.010
Tarascon-sur-
Ariege

001.011
Watchtower in the
Val d'Andorre

001.012
The Walls of
Carcassonne

001.013
The Pont
d'Ortez

001.014
St. Lizier

001.015
Chateau de
Corraze

001.016
St. Bertrand
de Commings


    001.017     
The Women of
 Roussillon

001.018
Catalans of
Roussillon

         001.019           
  Gitanos of Spain  

    001.020     
A Mountaineer
of the Pyranees

      001.021   
 In a Pyrenean
Hermitage

    001.022       
The Basques of
the Mountains

001.023
Breche de
Roland

    001.024    
St-Jean-de-Luz


001.025
Chateau
d'Ultrera

 001.026
Chateau
de Lourdat

       001.027          
Masion Pierre Le
Hendaye

       001.028      
Porte Notre
Dame, Perpignan

  001.029   
Feuntarrabia

001.030
Gateway of
Bayonne

       001.031       
Arms of Henri IV

     001.032    
   Streets of St-
Jean-Pied-de-Port


  001.033  
  Couterets

     001.034      
Walls of
Navarreux

        001.035        
A Shepherd
of Bigorre

       001.036      
Espadrille-
Makers

        001.037      
Chateau of
Puylaurens

       001.038      
Trained Bears of
Vallee d'Us

       001.039        
Pilgrimage of
St. Martin

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