McManus Series 2: Scenes of Algeria and Tunisia

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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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