Narrow Boat Painting: a history and description of the English narrow boats' traditional paintwork

by A J Lewery (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1974

  $23.25

  Tony Lewery is acknowledged as an authoritative voice on all aspects of the 'roses and castles' folk art tradition of English narrow boat painting. This, a standard work on the subject, shows how the designs, proudly displayed on the narrowboats of generations of boat people, originated and evolved. The geomatric designs, painted flowers and romantic castle-and-cottage landscapes and vividly described along with pen portraits of the men who painted them.