Holograph journal in two versions (original and fair copy) of a tour from London to Naples and return via Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries made by the Hincks brothers between March 29th and December 8th, 1823, The brothers spent extended periods in Naples, Rome, Florence and Vienna; the journal records their sightseeing, their opinions of works of art and architecture, and the daily events of travel. Supplied with an introduction to William Richard Hamilton, the English ambassador and antiquary, they remained in Naples for three weeks, attending concerts, balls, and conversazioni, exploring the local antiquities, and climbing Vesuvius, Following their departure from Naples they spent a month in Rome, visiting museums, galleries, and the studios of Canova and Thorvaldsen; returned to Florence, where they met William Etty copying a Titian at the Uffizi; marveled at the new Simplon Road into Switzerland; and returned to England via Vienna and the Low Countries, Original annotated on front pastedown with title and note: "note upon the above (made on the day below written) Given to me by me (sic) dearest brother John Hincks, now no more.' T. C. Hincks, August 12, 1844.", Fair copy contains tipped-in portrait engraving of Francis Joseph Charles, Duc de Reichstadt, and laid-in advertising card for the hotel of Pooters and Decoster, Amsterdam, and With: 5 autograph letters, signed, to John Hincks from Thomas Hincks; 2 autograph letters, signed, to John Hincks from John Finkett-Maddock; autograph letters, signed, to Hincks from Rector R. Massin; notes, printed ephemera related to later members of the Hincks family; and a manuscript copy of "the Order of Sessions Made the 11th day of Jan.y 1827."
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, France, Ital, Naples (Italy), Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Etty, William, 1787-1849., Hamilton, William, 1777-1859., Hincks, John, 1788-1842., Hincks, Thomas Cowper, 1788-1865., and Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1777-1844.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Tourists, and Description and travel
Manuscript fragment on parchment of lessons from the Mass, from a lectionary or missal, including among others: Anthony (13 June); Sts. Gervase and Protase (24 June); Vigil of St. John the Baptist (23 June); Vigil of Sts. Peter and Paul (28 June); and Octave of the Apostles
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: the words "In illo tempore" begin with a 7- to 8-line initial "I" in blue with red penwork; the initials of the lessons are 1-line red or blue initials decorated with blue or red penwork; 1-line initials within lessons are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation and accents are in the same ink as the text; there are symbols similar to neumes above some of the text, perhaps aids for reading aloud.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Half-length bust portrait of Madame Necker in an oval, facing forward
Description:
Title from caption below image., Place of publication surmised from printmaker's and sitter's known place of activity., Date of publication from the National Portrait Gallery, registration no.: NPG D14522., and Mounted on sheet: 451 x 314 mm.
Autograph narrative, extensively illustrated by Mrs. Kenah, of two journeys in Europe taken by the Kenah couple with friends in 1821-24 and in 1827-29. On the first tour, accompanied by Walter Burrell, MP for Sussex, and "Mrs. Crutchley of Sunning Hill Park....and a Blenheim spaniel," the Kenahs traveled through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Bavaria; they were present in Naples for the 1822 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and spent time in Rome and Lucca as well. In the later tour, they visited the Low Countries, Germany, and Trieste. The text is clearly drawn from diaries kept by Mrs. Kenah during the tours, and contains her often humorous responses, as an "Inexperienced Traveller," to tourist sights, local customs and manners, "foreign" food, and travel difficulties, Mrs. Kenah describes herself as "a woman in quest of the Picturesque," and over 80 of her watercolors and pen and ink sketches are mounted in her travel album. Subjects include "Eruption of Vesuvius, October 22, 1822 as it appeared at midday;" several portraits of Lucchese, Swiss and German figures in local costume; a portrait of Tommaso Sgricci, the famous improvvisatore; a memorial Mass in Caudenberg; the "table d'hote" at the Baths of Ems; the Salon at the Palazzo Ricasoli in 1824; and a variety of "picturesque" landscapes, including a view of the Bay of Naples, of a canal in Venice, and of several castles and mountain scenes in Germany. Also included are several printed views of German scenes which have been hand-colored, and In addition, there are watercolors of English subjects at the end of the volume: cottage scenes, rural landscapes, "view of Box Hill," "Grimsthorpe, 1826," and "Dunkeld from Dr. Fisher's garden. Sept. 9 1826."
Description:
Spine title reads: "Journal. Vol. I.", Annotated on front endpaper: "Mary Leigh Best, 1878.", and Binding: Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco spine label, gilt decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Lucca (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Vesuvius (Italy)
Ethnic costume, Grand tours (Education), Landscape drawing, Travelers' writings, English, Views, Women authors, Women travelers, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Eruption, 1822
View of the small "oratory of St. Nicholas" perched on a tiny island in Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with initials and dated in lower left corner. "I.G.", i.e., Isabella Godfrey, the married name of Augusta Isabella Ingram., and Probably engraved and printed in England, where the printmaker presumably lived after marrying John Godfrey of Sandwich, Kent, in 1823. Possibly worked up from a sketch made on a post-nuptial continental tour.
Manuscript text of twelve letters from Watkins to his father, Pennoyre Watkins, describing his travels in the Low Countries, France, Spain and Switzerland in 1787. The manuscript contains corrections, addenda and several notes for a printer, and is apparently the text of "his Travels in France and Spain....suppressed" in the 1792 publication of Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily..... Versions of Letters 11 and 12 in this manuscript appeared as Letters I and II in the first edition of Travels and Watkins' letters give a full account of places, sights and people encountered on his travels with his friend, George Pocock, and include his horror at the sight of galley slaves in Bordeaux; his dislike of Spanish theater and his "shudder" in the offices of the Inquisition in Barcelona; his admiration of Mont Blanc and Chamonix; and his conclusion that Rousseau's description of the Vallais was "a deception passed upon travellers."
Description:
Title from front cover (repeated on first page as "title page")., Spine title: "Travels.", Signed on back cover: "Hughes. Brecon 1861.", and Binding: contemporary vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Alps, France, Spain, and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Pocock, George., Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, and Watkins, Pennoyre.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, and Description and travel
"A procession of the rich; a horse-drawn open-top golden carriage travels to the left, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the rich, many with bloated bellies; Fortune sits on top of carriage, slinging gold coins around her, into the held up garments of the memebers of the procession, Pluto sit behind on carriage; diseased figures crawl by side of carriage; Nemesis watches from cloud at top right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus divitiarum
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.104., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Mounted on page 130 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 21.3 x 31.3 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A procession of the rich; a horse-drawn open-top golden carriage travels to the left, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the rich, many with bloated bellies; Fortune sits on top of carriage, slinging gold coins around her, into the held up garments of the memebers of the procession, Pluto sit behind on carriage; diseased figures crawl by side of carriage; Nemesis watches from cloud at top right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus divitiarum
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.104., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., and Tipped in at page 103 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
"A procession of the poor; a horse-drawn cart travels to the left, pulled by two donkeys, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the poor; Poverty sits at top of cart, half naked and meagre, behind her sit Misfortuen, and in front Memory, Experience, Hope, and Industry, who hands out instruments of manual labour, Diligence leads the donkey holding up a whip, other allegorical figures including Labour and Solicitude amongst shabbily clothed procession, Misery and Beggary follow behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus paupertatis
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.105., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., Mounted on page 130 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 21.3 x 27 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A procession of the poor; a horse-drawn cart travels to the left, pulled by two donkeys, surrounded by figures personifying traits of the poor; Poverty sits at top of cart, half naked and meagre, behind her sit Misfortuen, and in front Memory, Experience, Hope, and Industry, who hands out instruments of manual labour, Diligence leads the donkey holding up a whip, other allegorical figures including Labour and Solicitude amongst shabbily clothed procession, Misery and Beggary follow behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Triumphus paupertatis
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,10.105., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Tipped in at page 103 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
