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Tour up the Rhine
Title
Tour up the Rhine, 12 June - 13 July 1838 / Emily Caroline Cobbold.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
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Notes
AMDigital Reference: Osborn D 355
Original version: 43 pages ; 14 x 22 cm.
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University
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Summary
The journal of a tour up the Rhine undertaken by the author, her parents, and her brother Robert Henry, accompanied part of the way by a Mr Lindsell of Lincoln's Inn, this manuscript is representative of the early nineteenth-century shift from travel as an educational venture to a tourist or holiday venture. This trip follows what was becoming a standard route: London, Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, Aix, Cologne, Coblenz, Baden-Baden, and back to London via Rotterdam. The journal covers the expected topics - churches, art museums and galleries, castles, scenery, inns, etc. - but to the author's credit, this account is more interesting than many diaries of this generation. It is illustrated with a few sketches, including a portrait of Robert Downing. At the beginning of the volume is a floral alphabet contrived by the author in 1836, with verses and 26 watercolor drawings.
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
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
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