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Souvenirs de l'Angleterre, with a letter from Madame Delahaye, 1826-1850

Creator:
Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, artist
Call Number:
LWL MSS 30
Image Count:
25
Abstract:
An album of twenty watercolors recording the 1826 journey to England by the Delahaye family of Pierrefitte, France. A family friend, Gaudissard traveled with them from their home near Saint-Denis, carefully recording the sights they saw across the Channel. His drawings include landscapes, cityscapes, and various views, each inscribed with a caption. Scenes of London include a depiction of a typical city street, St. James's Palace from the Pall Mall, the interior of the Tower of London, and the interior of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Palace. He captured the countryside near Richmond, the seaside at Brighton and the Royal Pavilion there, Windsor Castle and a view of London as seen from Windsor, and Christopher Wren's Monument in London, as seen from Greenwich. Gaudissard shows his pictorial range with a night scene of Brighton and a depiction of a strenuous boat race on the Thames. Among other images are the Duke of Devonshire's menagerie at Chiswick House, only in existence between 1811 and 1836, featuring an elephant and a monkey, and an Anglican priest in the pulpit at Canterbury. Two drawings depict friends at Pierrefitte wave goodbye to the Delahaye carriage as it departs, and then welcoming the family with open arms upon their return home. The album's frontispiece features a classic coach-and-four alighting into the English mist, and at the end a record of the family's departure from Dover, its White Cliffs in the background, aboard an early steamship and Accompanied by a 16-page letter dated 1826, written in French, addressed by Madame L. Delahaye to her friend Alexandrine upon the Delahayes' return from England. The letter recounts the family's journey in great detail from start to finish, and includes several mentions of the lively participation of Gaudissard. Also present is a single leaf, written approximately 1850, describing the genesis of the album and brief biographical sketch of the artist
Alternative Title:
Souvenirs de l'Angleterre
Description:
The caricaturist Michel René Gaudissard (1774-1848) used the pseudonym Godissart de Cari (or G de Cari...). He was called the "French Hogarth" and "the greatest master of French caricature during the early 19th century" (Deberdt). He is principally known for his biting caricatures of the English and their odd habits, especially as seen in his collection of engravings Le Musée grotesque (1816-1820)., In French., Title gold stamped on front cover and from text in the first drawing entitled "Frontispiece.", Bound in contemporary brown sheep, gilt spine and gilt cover borders with title stamped on front: Souvenirs de l'Angleterre. With binder's ticket on inside front cover: Rue de Cléry, no. 7 pres celle Montmatre, Binant, Md. de Papiers, Fournitures de Burcaux de Paris., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
France, England, and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848.
Subject (Topic):
Drawing, French
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Souvenirs de l'Angleterre, with a letter from Madame Delahaye, 1826-1850

3.
[Aerial photographs of Saint-Mihiel].

Published / Created:
[1918]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1922
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Aerial photographs likely taken by German forces of Saint-Mihiel, France, 1918. Photographs are annotated, possibly indicating the strategy of the German Army against the American Expeditionary Forces 5th Division during the Battle of Saint-Mihiel
Description:
The Battle of Saint-Mihiel was a major World War I battle fought from 1918 September 12 to 15. It involved the American Expeditionary Forces and French troops against German positions., Captions in German., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
France and Saint-Mihiel (France)
Subject (Name):
Germany. Heer. and United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
Subject (Topic):
Saint-Mihiel, Battle of, Saint-Mihiel, France, 1918, World War, 1914-1918, and Aerial operations
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Aerial photographs of Saint-Mihiel].

4.
[Sketchbook recording a tour in central and southern France, with a few British views] [art

Published / Created:
1827-1841.
Call Number:
82 827Sk
Image Count:
52
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An album of sketches largely comprised of images drawn by a traveller in central and southern France in the late 1820s and early 1830s. The images, executed in a variety of media and styles, are mostly skillfully drawn landscapes, elevations of buildings, and people in local costume, with captions in French (with some English), many of which show scenes in the Bagnères-de-Bigorre (September-October 1828) in southwestern France as well as scenes in Pau (1827), Saint-Étienne (1828), Peyrehorade (1828), Nimes (1828), Bayonne (June 1828), Toulouse (May 1829), Montpellier (June 1829), Bordeaux (August 1830), and Royan (1831). The picturesque views include: a shepherd on stilts ('berger des Landes'); a couple on a cacolet at Bayonne; a rear view of a farmer sitting on a wall; a view of a chateau near Toulouse silhouetted against the red night sky, and another of the Tour des Pins at Montpellier glowing in the dark. Several drawings demonstrate an interest in architecture and antiquities: there are detailed, very skilled architectural drawings of the Thermes de Marie Thérèse at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Latin inscriptions copied from Roman monuments. Landscape drawings include a tall chestnut tree at the convent of Notre-Dame de Médoux and Narcissa's tomb at Montpellier (with a quote from Young's Night Thoughts). The album also includes five British scenes by another artist: the Tower of Refuge, Isle of Man; Netley Castle in Hampshire England; Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight; the ancient well at Wavertree and Prince Rupert's headquarters, Everton, both near Liverpool (these last two signed 'Alex Aikin').
Description:
In French and English, with some Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Artist unidentified, but is plausibly English; the sketch of Narcissa's tomb at Montpellier has a quote in English from Young's "Night Thoughts"., On different colored papers, with a table of contents, a few leaves previously removed; red glazed paper over pulp boards, green glazed endpapers., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
France, England, France., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Monuments & memorials, and Castles & palaces
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Sketchbook recording a tour in central and southern France, with a few British views] [art original].