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• Title:Journal of a tour of the Continent.
  
• Production:1828 June 21-October 6.
  
• Physical Description:1 v. (ca. 100 pages) ; 23 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: D919 .J68 1828
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:Blind in 19th century quarter calf and marbled boards.
  
• Summary:Manuscript journal of an unidentified British traveller on a tour of the Continent, June 21-October 6, 1828. The traveler's itinerary includes Dusseldorf, Bonn, Frankfort, Falda, Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Zurich, Bern, Lausanne, Geneva, and Paris. Example activites of the diarist include an organ recital in Harlem, a bath in the Rhine, the opera in Frankfort, and galleries in Potsam, Berlin, Sans Souci, and Dresden.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Subjects:Grand tours (Education)
  Europe--Description and travel--19th century.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1828.
  
• Genre/Form:Diaries--1828.
  Travel literature--Europe--1828.