Privilege & Poverty. The Life and Times of Irish Painter and Naturalist Alexander Williams

Alexander Williams' extensive collection of memoirs and papers, preserved and never made public, form unique records from Victorian Ireland. His life was extraordinarily wide ranging-though primarily a landscape painter, his studies of old Dublin buildings and streetscapes are of particular interest. He was also an apprentice hatter, a taxidermist, and a professional singer. Illustrated with a wide selection of his work, this absorbing biography illuminates the diversity of his life and times with material found nowhere else.