A History of Art for Beginners and Students
By Clara Erskine Clement Waters
For these reasons, we know something about Egyptian art and nothing about Egyptian artists, and from all these influences, it follows that Egyptian painting is little more than an illuminated alphabet or a child’s picture history. In hieroglyphics, or when writing characters of Egypt, small pictures of certain animals or other objects often stand for whole words.
It appears that this idea was carried into Egyptian painting, which, by this means, became simply a picture chronicle and never reached a point where it could be called genuinely artistic or high art. The remains of Assyrian paintings are so few that they scarcely serve any other purpose than to prove that the Assyrians were accustomed to decorating their walls with pictures.
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Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Clara Erskine Clement Waters (August 28, 1834, in St. Louis, Missouri – February 29, 1916, in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American author and traveller.
Biography
On August 28, 1834, Clement was born as Clara Erskine in St. Louis, Missouri. Clement’s father was John Erskine, a businessman. Clement’s mother was Harriet Bethiah (Godfrey) Erskine. She was educated at home by private tutors. Clement’s writing career began in 1869 with the privately printed work Simple Story of the Orient. In 1852, Clement married James Hazen Clement, a businessman. They moved to Newton, Massachusetts.
After the death of her first husband in 1882, Clement married Edwin Forbes Waters, author and owner of the Boston Daily Advertiser. They resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Clement toured extensively in Europe, visited Palestine and Turkey in 1868, and travelled worldwide in 1883/4. Her travels continued later in life.
Clara Erskine Clement Waters
