Adela Catherine Breton
| Miss Adela Catherine Breton | |||||||||
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| Born | 1849 | ||||||||
| Died | 1923 | ||||||||
| Residence |
c/o Wilts and Dorset Bank, Bath c/o Col. H. Breton, RE, St Margaret's House, Rochester [1900] Bath [1906] c/o Wilts and Dorset Bank, Bath [1911] c/o Wilts and Dorset Bank, Bath ; 15 Camden Crescent, Bath [1915] c/o Lloyds Bank, Bath; 15 Camden Crescent, Bath [1917] | ||||||||
| Occupation | archaeologist | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1900.01.09 proposed
death reported in Report of the Council for 1923
obituary notice Man xxiii, 76
Notes From Elsewhere
Adela Catherine Breton (1849-1923) was an English archaeological artist and explorer. She made watercolour copies of the wall paintings of Mexican temples, notably those of the Upper Temple of Jaguars at Chichen Itza.
A collection of her work is held in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, where a digitisation project was started in 2014 so that the fragile rolls of paintings can be preserved and made available for research.[1]
Some of her correspondence with Ella Lewis of Philadelphia is held in Harvard University Library.[2
Died Bridgetown, Barbados.
Travelled widely but her main interest was Mexico which she visited frequently to draw and paint archaeological sites. Published extensively and left her collections of artefacts, notes and drawings to Bristol Museum.
St Margaret’s House, Rochester. (This is probably her brother’s address; she had a home in Bath where she was brought up.)
Father (1861 census) William Henry Breton age 62, Lieut., Royal Navy and fund holder born in Clapham Surry; wife Elizabeth Ann age 39; Adela daughter age 11; Henry, son age 9; Lucy niece age 37, fundholder and three servants residing at 15 Camden Place
Brother's name Harry d'Arch - lived Shoebury
Publications
External Publications
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
photos, art work
Other Material
papers in Peabody Museum, Harvard university letters 1914-23
Art work and objects at Bristol Museums and Archives; BRSLI Mexican pottery
PRM field collector