Search

You Searched For

Search Results

1.
[Journal], 1838 Oct 4-24.

Creator:
Tebbs, H. V. (Henry Virtue)
Call Number:
Osborn d428
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph diary, apparently incomplete, of part of a tour through Italy. The diary opens with a description of a tour of Herculaneum and of antiquities and sight-seeing in Naples, followed by a journey to Rome. Tebbs describes a visit to the Vatican Library and the manuscripts and incunabula shown to him by the librarians, including fragments of early Greek Gospel texts and a large "Hebrew Bible presented by the Duke of Urbino." Tebbs and his unnamed companions then journey to Florence, where they see the major sites by engaging a guide to "drive about the whole day," and then proceed to Bologna for two days, visiting the University and its library. The diary ends with their arrival in Piacenza
Description:
Annotation on front pastedown: "H. V. Tebbs. Glebe House, Chelsea. Vol. 2." and Binding: quarter roan with blue boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, Florence (Italy), Naples (Italy), and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Tebbs, H. V. (Henry Virtue) and Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Antiquities
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Journal], 1838 Oct 4-24.

2.
Voornaamste gebouwen vande stadt Romen t'Amsterdam

Creator:
Ram, Johannes de, 1648-1693, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1690]
Call Number:
724 690R
Image Count:
59
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Views of Rome (including the Vatican City), London, Amsterdam, and Tangier
Description:
All engraved. and Bound in full contemporary calf, spine gilt, red morocco label. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), Rome (Italy), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Vatican City
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Voornaamste gebouwen vande stadt Romen t'Amsterdam

3.
Rhomitypion

Creator:
Ponti, Antonino
Published / Created:
1523.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 791
Image Count:
124
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Antoninus Pontus (Antonino Ponti from Cosenza, ca. 1600-1650), Rhomitypion. An allegorical treatise in three parts on the past and present state of Rome and Italy, topography, cosmography, geography, etc. Includes a dream vision of heaven and a dialogue between the author and Cato the Censor. Ends with a panegyric in praise of Giovanni Ruffo de' Teodoli, Archbishop of Cosenza (1511-1527), the author's patron. The manuscript is apparently unique and probably an autograph fair copy
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in a slightly uneven upright Humanistica Cursiva Formata. Headings and explicit-incipit formulas in capitals., On f. 2v, painted coat of arms of Giovanni Ruffo de' Teodoli, Archbishop of Cosenza, surmounted by a cross and placed in a floral wreath, above two distychs. At the head of each part a 6-line silver initial (Capitalis), outlined with black ink, on a square red or blue background with silver foliate decoration. A small purple initial in the space for a 4-line initial on f. 4r., At many places the paper is damaged and the reading impaired by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original presentation binding: light brown leather over pasteboard. Spine with three raised bands, gauffered and gilt edges. Both covers are decorated with two frames of blind-tooled quadruple fillets surrounding rich gold-tooled frames with in the centre on the front cover the coat of arms of the dedicatee (with six-spoked wheel), on the rear cover a large rosette. Remainders of two pairs of ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ponti, Antonino.
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Visions, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rhomitypion

4.
Pomponius Mela; Vibius Sequester; Dares, etc

Creator:
Mela, Pomponius
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Marston MS 76
Image Count:
156
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (various watermarks), composed in four parts, of 1) Pomponius Mela, De chorographia libri tres, ending abruptly in III.107. 2) Vibius Sequester, De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, paludibus, montibus, gentibus. 3) Unidentified text(s) on the names of the Roman provinces and their regions (ff. 47v-48v) and the names of the cities in the provinces (ff. 48v-50r). 4) Dares Phrygius, De excidio troiae historia, ending abruptly and missing f. 54. Arts. 5-9, a series of exordia, appear to be school exercises in Latin prose composition, all poorly written and heavily corrected. They follow approximately the text of Justinus' Epitoma, but are much abbreviated; the Latin is often incomprehensible without a prior knowledge of the historical narrative. 10) Short unidentified passages on Epirus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-38): Written by multiple scribes in humanistic cursive script, above top line. Part II (ff. 41-50): Written by several scribes in humanistic cursive, above top line. Part III (ff. 51-76): Written by several scribes in varying styles of humanistic cursive, above top line. Part IV (ff. 72-76): Written by a single (?) scribe in humanistic cursive script., Part I: Plain red initials, 5- to 1-line. Epigraphic heading on f. 1r; other headings in humanistic bookhand, in red. Part II: Epigraphic headings and plain initials, 3- to 1-line, in black. Part III: Epigraphic heading, f. 51r, and plain intials in black. Part IV: Heading on f. 72r in red., The patterns of stains suggest that the parts were originally separate booklets., and Binding: Eighteenth century, Italy. Paper case, once white.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Rome (Italy), and Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name):
Mela, Pomponius.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pomponius Mela; Vibius Sequester; Dares, etc

5.
Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

Creator:
Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850
Call Number:
OSB MSS 129
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
72
Abstract:
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Letters from Switzerland and the Alps describe the scenery, particularly near Vevey and Lake Como, and refer to the writings of Rousseau, Byron, and Thomas Moore. Letters from Florence and Rome detail his responses to art and architecture, particularly the Venus de Medici, the sculpture of Canova and Thorvaldsen, and "the pride, pomp and circumstance" of Roman Catholic churches and ceremonies, which "must disgust the severe taste of the English traveller." Leigh also mentions Lord Byron, Lady Drury and Lord Beauchamp, the "set of regular English Dandies" and English ladies in Rome, the unattractiveness of Roman women, and his own purchase of a Salvator Rosa painting and Three letters to Sir Egerton Brydges, written during the Leigh family's stay in Switzerland in 1837, concern Leigh's poetry, his health, and a possible visit. His letters to his nephew Frederick Colvile contain news of his health and family; travel descriptions; and advice on Colvile's education. A March 1836 letter announces that the trustees of Rugby School have "unanimously decided in favour of Dr. Arnold;" a December 1837 letter comments that "Dr. Newman's book" (Lectures on Justification?) "contains much that is...to an ordinary man unintelligible." Other topics include the 1850 death of Sir Robert Peel and Leigh's own Liberal Party politics. The collection also contains autograph manuscripts of two poems by Leigh: "The First Days of Spring" and "Hymn for the Consecration of the Church on Westwood Heath."
Description:
Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh privately published over two dozen collections of his own poems and essays. He was created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in May, 1839. Leigh traveled several times to the Continent for his heath, but died of apoplexy in Bonn in September of 1850; he was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry Leigh. and Accompanied by a container list.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

6.
Journal of a tour on the continent of Europe made in 1823 by Thomas Cowper Hincks and John Hincks

Creator:
Hincks, John, 1788-1842
Call Number:
Osborn d408
Container / Volume:
Volume 1
Image Count:
98
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal of a tour on the continent of Europe made in 1823 by Thomas Cowper Hincks and John Hincks and written by John Hincks, 1823

7.
Landscape with peasants and cattle the Colosseum and the arch of Septimus Severus are seen int eh

Creator:
Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, engraver
Published / Created:
[1 September 1775]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3669.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from accompanying List of plates published by Boydell., Alternative title etched below image., "From the original drawing, in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire.", "No. 115"--Lower left corner., Plate published in: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., The Lewis Walpole Library: Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., See Object file for copy of the correspondence between E. Manwaring and W.S. Lewis., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
Publisher:
Published Septr 1st. 1775 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682
Subject (Topic):
Views, Colosseum (Rome, Italy), and Triumphal arches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Landscape with peasants and cattle the Colosseum and the arch of Septimus Severus are seen int eh distance : Claude himself also is represented drawing / [graphic]

8.
Journal : from Pisa on Monday Nov 17th 1817 to Arta on Sunday May 10th 1818. continued, Vol. II

Creator:
Cornwall, Alan Gardner, 1797-1874
Call Number:
Osborn d424
Image Count:
267
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Holograph diary tracing 6 months of Cornwall's extended foreign tour in the company of Henry Venn Elliott, his tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge. This volume covers his journey from Pisa through various Italian cities and his subsequent travels to Bari, Corfu and Albania. Cornwall's entries for Pisa, Florence, Rome and Naples are largely detailed description of the artworks, buildings, antiquities and museums he visited daily. He devotes over 30 pages to the Pitti Palace, for example, and lists the books and manuscripts he was able to view at the Riccardi Palace. In Rome, Cornwall also toured the Vatican Library, taking particular note of Henry VIII's letters to Anne Boleyn; attended Roman Catholic services, the profession of a nun, and Carnival; and took a series of guided walks through the city. His visit to Naples included extended tours of Pompei and Herculaneum and of the Naples museum of antiquities, where he observed archaeologists' efforts to unroll and preserve scrolls found at Herculaneum and In Corfu, Cornwall and Elliott met with Sir Thomas Maitland, British governor of the Ionian Islands, and obtained letters of introduction to Ali Pasha and advice on travel in Albania. Cornwall describes the great palace of Ali Pasha at Janina; records two lengthy interviews with Ali Pasha and details his dress and manner; comments on introductions to young men "who belonged to Ali's harem of boys;" and notes his disappointment at failing to see the seraglio. The volume ends as Cornwall's party sets out from Arta
Description:
Alphabetical index of placenames at back of volume., Volumes 1 and 3 not present., Inscribed on verso of front flyleaf: "Alan Cornwall. From his aff. friend H. V. Elliott. Pisa, Nov 15th, 1817.", and Binding: contemporary leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Albania, Florence (Italy), Iōannina (Greece), Naples (Italy), Pisa (Italy), and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ali Pașa, Tepedelenli, 1744?-1822., Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824, Cornwall, Alan Gardner, 1797-1874., Elliott, Henry Venn, 1792-1865., Maitland, Thomas, Sir, 1759?-1824., Biblioteca apostolica vaticana., Catholic Church, Palazzo Medici Riccardi., and Palazzo Pitti.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Customs and practices, Grand tours (Education), Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, Antiquities, and Festivals, etc
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Journal : from Pisa on Monday Nov 17th 1817 to Arta on Sunday May 10th 1818. continued, Vol. II, 1817-1818

9.
A new mapp of Rome shewing its antient and present scituation

Creator:
Browne, Christopher, active 1684-1712
Published / Created:
[ca. 1700?]
Call Number:
1973 Folio 10
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
New map of Rome showing its ancient and present situation
Description:
BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 52 x 61.2 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 20 of 63 maps bound together., Plan view Rome, Italy with relief shown pictorially., Oriented with north towards left., "I. Harris, sculp.", and Bar scales in "500 paces containing half an Italian mile" and "528 paces being half an English mile."
Publisher:
By Christopher Browne at the Globe near the west end of St. Pauls
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A new mapp of Rome shewing its antient and present scituation

10.
Notarial register of charters relating to the Hospital of St. Ambrose (Rome).

Creator:
Archiconfraternita dei SS. Ambrogio e Carlo dei Lombardi
Published / Created:
[ca. 1485-1585]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 675
Image Count:
185
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of documents pertaining to the Hospital of St. Ambrose in Rome compiled over a century and containing a core of foundation documents and numerous later additions
Description:
In Latin., Written in several notarial hands, signed and dated by notaries., Heading on f. 2 in calligraphic script with a large interlaced penwork initial. Notaries' marks., and Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped leather with foldover flap and buckle. Miniature of St. Ambrose painted on front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Archiconfraternita dei SS. Ambrogio e Carlo dei Lombardi.
Subject (Topic):
Charters, Hospitals, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Notarial register of charters relating to the Hospital of St. Ambrose (Rome).

11.
A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the

Published / Created:
[between 1680 and 1710?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Description:
In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; imprint below the last three; the columns are not separated by rules., Date range conjectural; other ballads with similar imprints are also undated; printer’s name conjectured from other imprints recorded by Wing., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In this setting line 24 begins with "straight"., Not in Wing., Mounted on leaf 52. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1., and Sheet in two pieces repaired and mounted as one piece.
Publisher:
Printed by and for C.B. [Brown?] and sold by J. Walter, at the Hand and Pen in High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and vertuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children, wickedly performed by a heathenish and blood-thirsty blackamore, their servant, the like of which cruelty and murther was never before heard of. To the tune of The lady's fall, &c. Enter’d according to order

12.
A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the

Published / Created:
[between 1701 and 1800?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Description:
Caption title above woodcut., Date range conjectural., Verse begins: "In Rome a nobleman did wed"., In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first three; the columns are not separated by rules., In this setting line 24 begins with "and"., Mounted on leaf 51. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Murder, Master and servant, Abused children, Pleading (Begging), Homicides, and Criminals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A lamentable ballad of the tragical end of a gallant lord and virtuous lady : together with the untimely death of their two children

13.
Hours of the Virgin; Life of the Virgin; Description of the pilgrim churches in Rome

Published / Created:
[ca. 1475]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 652
Image Count:
95
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In German., Watermarks: quatrefoil, var. Briquet 5576?; balance, var. Briquet 2454?., Script: Hand A copied ff. 1r-39r (quires I-IV, artt. 1-7) in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; Hand B copied ff. 41r-84v (art. 8) in Gothica Cursiva Currens; Hand C copied ff. 85r-89r (art. 9) in Gothica Cursiva Libraria., There is space for initials in artt. 8-9 but they have not been executed. In artt. 1-7 the decoration consists of red heightening of majuscules and red plain initials, 1-3 lines, with guide-letters. Headings in red., and Binding: Original undecorated brown pigskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards, with two decorated brass clasps attached to the rear cover and five decorated brass bosses on each cover (the center bosses are circular; one corner boss on the front cover missing). Remnants of a 17th-century paper title label on the spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, German, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours of the Virgin; Life of the Virgin; Description of the pilgrim churches in Rome

14.
Liberianae Basilicae facies interior qva arae maximae obversa est. pl. 95

Published / Created:
1621
Call Number:
1976 Folio 121
Collection Title:
Basilicae S. Mariae Maioris de vrbe a Liberio Papa I vsqve ad Pavlvm V pont. max. descriptio et
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Includes scale
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Rome. Santa Maria Maggiore (Church)
Collection Created:
Romae, ex typographia B. Zannetti, 1621
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liberianae Basilicae facies interior qva arae maximae obversa est. pl. 95

15.
Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

Published / Created:
1471.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 762
Image Count:
904
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Legendary history of the foundation of Rome. 2) Mirabilia Romae. 3) Note on Roman abbreviations especially for personal names. 4) Heading of an index to the Roman History of Livy (?). 5) Note on officials, functions and institutions of the Roman empire. 6) Note on the structure of Roman personal names. 7) Headings of the chapters of Books 1-9 of Facta et dicta memorabilia. 8) Giunta de Sancto Giminiano (14th century), alphabetical table to Facta et dicta memorabilia, from A to T, with ample blank spaces between each letter of the alphabet. 9) Mentions of Valerius Maximus and Livy in works of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyre. 10) Valerius Maximus (1st century), Facta et dicta memorabilia, including the pseudepigraphic Book 10, De interpretacionibus nominum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the text very large, the glosses small., Underlining, paragraph marks, headings, stroking of majuscules and plain initials (with guide letters), all in red., The pages damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding in brown leather, the cardboard covers covered with marbled brown paper. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and brown title label with gold-tooled inscription: “VALERIUS MAXIMUS / MANUSCRIPTUM”. Red sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Description and travel, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

16.
The Wonder of wonders : giving an account of two old men, lately and strangely known to be in the

Published / Created:
1683
Call Number:
BrSides 1988 144
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Beinecke copy imperfect: bled at top and right side.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Clarke, senior, at the Bible and Harp ... in VVest-Smith-field
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Brit Tracts --1683., Prophecies., and Religion
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Wonder of wonders : giving an account of two old men, lately and strangely known to be in the city of Rome in Italy, and how they came invisibly thither, together with their ten strange and wonderful prophesies which particularly do mention what shall

17.
[Diary], 1828 Oct-1829 Feb

Call Number:
Osborn d415
Image Count:
80
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript journal, by a woman, of travel with her husband George from Venice to Rome in the autumn and winter of 1828-29. Topics include sightseeing, excursions to Roman ruins and the Borghese Gardens; social events, including meetings with Sir Humphry Davy, Chateaubriand, and the Neapolitan ambassador; and visits to the opera, the theater, and Mrs. Glasgow's "tableaux." and The author is particularly interested in art and describes visits to several studios, including those of Vincenzo Camuccini, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Bertel Thorwaldsen, John Gibson, and Richard James Wyatt. She offers critiques of the works she was shown, noting that she did not consider Thorwaldsen's statues for the monument of Pius VII "well-executed" and that she disliked Gibson's "method of staining the marble as Canova used to do with iron rust....we thought it no improvement." She mentions purchases of several prints from Cipriani as well as shopping expeditions for marbles and mosaic pieces
Description:
First few pages cut out., Annotation on front pastedown: "Munich. Octr. 15th, 1828.", and Binding: original marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Camuccini, Vincenzo, 1771-1844., Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848., Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1766-1839., Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829., Gibson, John, 1790-1866., Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., and Wyatt, Richard James, 1795-1850.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary], 1828 Oct-1829 Feb

18.
[Journal], 1857-1858

Call Number:
Osborn d386
Image Count:
88
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Autograph diary of a six-month visit in Rome with "Charlotte and Papa." The author comments on art and architecture, gardens and fountains, and ancient monuments. The author, probably a woman, is interested in Catholic ceremonies and practices and describes the final profession ceremony of a nun, the lying in state and funeral of Cardinal Freschi, the celebration of the Festival of the Conception, Christmas services at St. Peter's, the Roman Carnival, and Papal processions and The author also details social encounters with such figures as Cardinal Antonelli, Sir Charles and Lady Lyell and the sculptor Benjamin Spence
Description:
Binding: contemporary half red morocco with marbled boards and endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Antonelli, Giacomo, 1806-1876., Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875., Lyell, Mary., Spence, Benjamin., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Customs and practices, Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Women travelers, Description and travel, Festivals, etc, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Journal], 1857-1858

Limit your search

more »

more »

more »

View distribution

Current results range from 1450 to 1858

View larger »