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The journal of the Right Honble. Sir William Drummond. K.C. Member of the Privy Council : tour through Germany, Italy, and France
Title
The journal of the Right Honble. Sir William Drummond. K.C. Member of the Privy Council : tour through Germany, Italy, and France, 21 August - 9 November 1787.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
With a printed Description of the Venus de Medicis inside the front cover.
AMDigital Reference: Osborn C 331
Original version: 164 pages ; 19 cm.
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University
Access and use
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Summary
Drummond's journal gives a description of cities and towns in the countries mentioned in the title as well as in Flanders, Austria, with the longest accounts of Innsbruck, Verona, Padua, Venice, Bologna, Loreto, Naples and environs, Rome, Florence, and Turin. The account contains miscellaneous notes on monuments, customs, paintings and architecture, hospitals, disease and public health (with many notes on baths and spas), musical performances, military matters and fortifications, etc. Although Drummond mentions and quotes Addison's Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, he visits many places (hospitals, for example) off the usual tourist itineraries. Occasionally, he names his guides: Dr Menghin at Innsbruck; his valet Domenico Zocchi at Venice; Richard Worsley, 7th Bart., at Rome; Niccolo Carletti at Turin.
Variant and related titles
Grand tour.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2023
Series
The Grand Tour
Subjects
Genre/Form
Diaries
Also listed under
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
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