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Tour up the Rhine, 12 June - 13 July 1838 / Emily Caroline Cobbold.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobbold, Emily Caroline, author.
- Series:
- Grand Tour.
- The Grand Tour
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women travelers--History--19th century.
- Women travelers.
- Rhine River.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- 12 June - 13 July 1838 /
- 1838
- 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.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: Osborn D 355
- OCLC:
- 1373886809
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