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Travel itinerary

Maker

(artist)
1798-1863

Title

Travel itinerary

Date of Production

1831-1833

Medium

Brown ink on wove paper

Dimensions

Width: 17.9 cm
Height: 11.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1954.AH.2.79

Mode of Acquisition

A.A.D. Harding, bequest, 1954

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Notes

Verso of flyleaf is red-blue marbled paperThe "Colonel Light" mentioned in the inscription presumably refers to Colonel William Light. Light was travelling in Europe from 1824 to 1830. He published his Views of Pompeii in 1828, which consisted of lithographs by Harding after drawings by Light.

Provenance

James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) and A.R. Harding; by descent to A.A.D. Harding; gift of A.A.D. Harding, 1954.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: beginning upper left and filling whole page, brown ink: from Naples to / Florence to (by Rome) / I Pisa / I Pallazzo Le Franchi where B lived / a Garden House in the / neighbourhood. / I Leghorn / I Villa where Byron lived at Monte / Nero. 5 Miles from Leghorn. / Villa Alboro. where B. lived. / I Genoa. / Colonel Light / Mess. rs Bell de Yongh. & to / Leghorn or / Mr. H. Fox / Charge d'Affaires / Naples / 17 Days from Rome to London by / Florence Genoa Turin Lyon & Paris; lower right, graphite: 79.

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