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Journal of a journey to Italy, 1816

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Hengrave 30

Scope and Contents

Short notes taken in a journey to Italy in 1816 with some subsequent remarks and observations. Daily entries, 12 MAY – 2 JUL 1816. With watercolour paintings of landscape, architecture and antiquities. In a subsequent pencil annotation Gage observed 'It is my intention to shorten and change all the first part of this journal it being at present too long and too dull even for myself to read'. Watercolours: [p.18] Ruins of the Cathedral at Cambray; [p.24] [Pen sketch] In the church at St Quentin, a black slab 1272; [p.40] Saint Marcoul's Priory at Corbeny; [p.74] Church at Vatry; [p.111] The Castle of Salins; [p.114] Bridge of Dombief near Maison Neuve at the foot of Mount Jura; [p.116] Mount Jura from the road to Saint Laurent; [p.118] The town of Morey; [p.156] The Lake of Geneva from the Grand Sacconet; [p.160] The Castle of Ornay from Pigny, on the Lake of Geneva; [p.172] The Castle of Doin on the Lake of Annecy; [p.178] S. Jean de la Maurienne; [p.180] Near Saint Jean de la Maurienne. At end, printed accounts of death sentences passed on Domenico Gigli, 1 DEC 1817, Andrea Emilj, 13 APR 1818

Dates

  • Creation: 1816

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Extent

1 volume(s) (1 volume)

Language of Materials

English

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