MITCHELL, Flora H. Vanishing Dublin [SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]

With fifty coloured plates and one page of text to each. With an introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Dublin: Figgis, 1966. First edition. Quarto. pp. x, 101. Green cloth. Signed by the author on titlepage. A fine copy in dust jacket. Rare with author’s signature.
Flora Mitchell, 1890-1973, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and moved with her family to Ireland as a result of the Sioux Indian Rising in the 1890’s. She studied drawing and painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art developing a reputation for her life sketches and her watercolours. After a period of voluntary work in Dublin during the First World War, she went to teach art in Canada but by the end of the 1920’s, she was back in Dublin. In 1935 she began exhibiting with the Water Colour Society of Ireland, which was her only showcase until the mid-1950’s, when she exhibited with the Dublin Painters’ Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Much of Flora Mitchell’s work encompassed drawings of Dublin landmarks, as well as cityscapes in oils and watercolour paintings, exemplified in her excellent illustrated book, ‘Vanishing Dublin’. She also produced some fine pencil sketches of London buildings. Examples of her works are in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Civic Museum, Dublin and the James Joyce Museum.