Lot 70
Continental Tour.- Journal of a Tour to France, the Low Countries, Germany and Italy, manuscript, 1815-16.
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
[Continental Tour].- Journal of a Tour to France, the Low Countries, Germany and Italy, manuscript, 165pp., 4 botanical leaves inserted, slightly browned, original sheep, rebacked, 8vo, 4th September 1815 - 21st February 1816.
⁂ Visit to Canova's work shop. "I was amused with Canova's workshop. Very few things are finished, but there were the models of most of his famous works - A lovely Hebe, bought by Lord Cawdor, is perfect nature... ."
The journal of an Englishman travelling on the Continent from Ostend to Naples, via Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Munich, Switzerland, and Rome. The Continent was still suffering the after effects of the Napoleonic Wars; in Brussels he comes across piled up cannons taken by the allies from the field of Waterloo, and witnesses the Prussian Guards in Heidelberg.
Description
[Continental Tour].- Journal of a Tour to France, the Low Countries, Germany and Italy, manuscript, 165pp., 4 botanical leaves inserted, slightly browned, original sheep, rebacked, 8vo, 4th September 1815 - 21st February 1816.
⁂ Visit to Canova's work shop. "I was amused with Canova's workshop. Very few things are finished, but there were the models of most of his famous works - A lovely Hebe, bought by Lord Cawdor, is perfect nature... ."
The journal of an Englishman travelling on the Continent from Ostend to Naples, via Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Munich, Switzerland, and Rome. The Continent was still suffering the after effects of the Napoleonic Wars; in Brussels he comes across piled up cannons taken by the allies from the field of Waterloo, and witnesses the Prussian Guards in Heidelberg.
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