This Favoured Land

Edward King-Tenison and Lady Louisa in Spain, 18501853

Lee Fontanella

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783034322089
• eBook ISBN:
  9781787078772
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art Techniques

In the wake of the Irish potato famine, Edward King-Tenison, a sometime Irish politician of the liberal order and one of the first masterful photographers of Spain, and his wife, Lady Louisa Mary Anne Anson, the eldest daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield, left their estate of Kilronan in County Roscommon, Ireland, to reside and travel in Andalusia and, later, in Castile. The remarkable adventure on which these Irish nobles embarked in mid-nineteenth-century Spain led to a husband-and-wife team of astonishing cultural production. While Tenison focused on photography, Lady Louisa chronicled their travels, producing sketches and establishing relations on an international level with other artists, who collaborated in her illustrated chronicle. This book documents the fascinating travels of this couple and presents their work to a new readership.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword and acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: How I met the Tenisons, who they were, and why they so interested me
• Chapter 2: The sociability and civic-mindedness of the Tenisons
• Chapter 3: The Spanish sojourn: Profound substrata that serve to define both civic and artistic differences between the Tenisons and Spaniards
• Chapter 4: Sketching and photographing
• Chapter 5: Tracing the Spanish sojourn: Calendar, general route and excursions
• Index