Francis Hopkinson Smith
A White Umbrella in Mexico
Hardcover
(Houghton, Mifflin and Company March 15, 1889)
, 1st edition
Francis Hopkinson Smith was an author, artist, world traveler, and the engineer who built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty. In his personal travelog, "A White Umbrella in Mexico", Smith endeavored to capture, through drawings and verbal vignettes, the surface of a place in time which he knew to be disappearing in the unstoppable progression of culture, politics, technology, and developing world scene. Smith invites you to view this world through his perspective as painter and idler.
- Pages
- 227
- Weight
- 32.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.1 x 6.6
in.