A view of the east front of Strawberry Hill, looking from the Thames. A gentleman and lady converse on the left. On the right a workman tends the lawn with a scythe
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
"A scene outside the orchestra at Vauxhall. A stout woman puts a handkerchief round her husband's neck to protect him from the night air. Her daughter holds her fan to her face and looks towards a beau in the middle distance who inspects her through his glass. A waiter walks off (right) with glasses and a bottle. There are other figures. The background shows the orchestra (left), with two musicians, and the organ; on the right are trees, and the 'covered walk'; two men sit at a table with a bowl of punch."--British Museum online catalogue
Autograph letter signed written in response to recipient's request for information regarding the whereabouts of family member Christopher. Hill describes his partnership in a land claim with "Chris" on farmland in Red Wing, Minnesota, between November 1855 and September 1856, and Chris's relocation to Superior, Wisconsin, where he was hired as a member of the surveying party of the northern section of the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad. Hill briefly describes his own position as a clerk and draftsman; his unmarried status; and his agreement with the recipient that a visit to the West would be interesting to him. Hill provides Chris's address in a postscript. The letterhead contains a printed woodcut view of "St. Anthony, Minnesota, [now part of Minneapolis] on the Mississippi."
Description:
St. Paul, Minnesota resident; surveyor and draftsman.
Subject (Geographic):
Red Wing (Minn.)--Description and travel, Saint Anthony (Hennepin County, Minn. : 1855-1872)--Pictorial works, and Saint Paul (Minn.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hill, A. J.--(Alfred James),--1823-1895, Hotten, John, and St. Croix & Lake Superior Railroad