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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 002: Scenes of Algeria and Tunisia:

from the book:
Spell of Algeria and Tunisia
Written by Francis Miltoun and illustrated by Blanche McManus. Boston:
L.C. Page & Co. 1908.

Click on any image to see a larger sample image:

002.001
The Caid of
Msaaba

          002.002            
Batna

         002.003          
Kouba of
 Sidi-Brahim

002.004
A Daughter of
the 'Great Tents'

     002.005       
A Captain
of Spahis

    002.006
A Bou-Saada
Type

        002.007      
The Gorge
du Rummel


002.008
Street of
Mosques, Tunis

     002.009      
Touggourt

     002.010        
Muezzin's Call
to Prayer

       002.011      
In An Arab
Cemetery

     002.012    
A Flute
Player

             002.013           
The Life of the
'Great Tents'

        002.014      
Arab & Horse
in Gala Attire


002.015
The Mehari of
the Desert

         002.016            
A Desert
Caravan

         002.017          
The Sand Dunes
of the Desert

       002.018      
A
Goum

      002.019      
Arab Mosque
of Beni-Ounif

     002.020        
Laghouat

        002.021          
Tomb of
Sidi-Yacoub


       002.022     
A Mauresque
of Blida

      002.023      
A Cemetery
Gate

      002.024       
A Constantine
Mosque 

           002.025            
Village & Gorge
of El Kantara

    002.026        
Courtyard of
Hotel
des Ziban,
Biskra

     002.027      
Sidi-Okba

      002.028       
The Kasba,
Bona


      002.029          
Lambessa &
its Ruins

         002.030            
In the Bazzars,
Tunis

           002.031           
The Ports of
Carthage

    002.032      
In a Kairouan
Mosque

            002.033            
El Oued

      002.034       
A Street in
Tozeur

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