The Life of John Carter 1868 Biography of quadriplegic artist ~ by Frederick James Mills ~ quadriplegia

Title: The Life of John Carter

Author: Frederick James Mills

Description: First Edition. Boards in green cloth with gilt pictorial of the subject on the front cover. Some wear around head of spine; corners shelf-worn. Interior is unmarked; some scattered smudging. 11 illustrations on plates, including frontispiece. 121 pages.

The story of the life and art of John Carter (1815-1850), a quadriplegic who taught himself to draw holding a pencil in his teeth, guiding it with motions of the head and lips. At the age of twenty, while climbing a tree in search of birds, he fell forty feet to the ground and became paralyzed from the neck down. Having been familiar an account of paralyzed woman who had learned to draw, he set out and devoted himself to acquiring a creditable degree of artistic proficiency. The volume concludes with nearly sixty pages of press reviews of his art, which were on exhibition in Boston and New York in 1867-1868.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Hurt and Houghton
Place: New York
Year: 1868

Keywords: biography, artist, paralytic, quadriplegic, quadriplegia,