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3 unusual facts about Amédée Forestier


Amédée Forestier

Baddeley, John F. Russia, Mongolia, China .... (Macmillan and Company, 1919).

In December 1911, a series of his drawings (accompanying text by Arthur Bulleid) was published in The Illustrated London News, depicting scenes of everyday life in an Iron age village near present day Glastonbury - "Glastonbury Lake Village".

John F. Baddeley

The texts taken more especially from manuscripts in the Moscow Foreign Office Archives; the whole by John F. Baddeley; a monumental work, published in 1919 in two volumes as a limited edition of only 250 copies, with an elaborate frontispiece ("the book epitomised in a series of pictures", said Baddeley) drawn by Amédée Forestier and engraved by Emery Walker.



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