Travel diary describing a tour through Europe, 1834-1835.

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Travel diary describing a tour through Europe, 1834-1835.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702179102

Holograph diary by Ann Craig of a 6 month tour (October 4th 1834-March 26th 1835) through Europe in the company of her husband John Craig and their two children Graham and Sarah. Their itinerary took them from Antwerp through Belgium into Germany, visiting the cathedral at Aix, along the Rhine to Cologne and Frankfurt, where 13 year old Graham was consigned to Dr. Becker's academy, much to his mother's distress. They then crossed into Switzerland, where they visited Edward Gibbon's old house at Lausanne and Voltaire's house at Ferney. After crossing into Italy by the Simplon Pass, they visited Milan, where they saw the cathedral, the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Pinacoteca ambrosiana as well as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (described as "very much destroyed"), and also saw Parmesan cheese being made near Pavia. At Carrara work was in progress on a statue of Christ from the great series commissioned from the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen for the Freuenkirche in Copenhagen. The party then travelled to Pisa and Florence, where they visited the galleries and the Boboli Gardens, before travelling through Tuscany to Rome. They then returned to Genoa, where they visited Mr. Fox (the future Lord Holland) and were shown "the best collection of pencil drawings by his wife Lady Augusta" and followed the coast to Nice (cordoned off due to a cholera outbreak), Aix en Provence and St. Remy before returning to Calais and London by way of Paris. In general, the diarist takes a greater interest in the social fabric of the countries visited than in their monuments and landscape.

1 v. (96 p.) ; 20 x 13 cm.

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