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- Creator
- Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877
- Call number
- Pforz BND-MSS (Cobbold, R.)
- Physical description
- 1 volume (95 manuscript pages 56 total leaves), ill, 22 cm; 1 volume (95 manuscript pages 56 total leaves), ill, 22 cm
- Preferred Citation
- Manuscript journal of a tour through France and Belgium, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Location
- Pforz BND-MSS (Cobbold, R.)
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
Richard Cobbold, English novelist and Church of England clergyman. Gilt red morocco notebook containing holograph account of Richard Cobbold's month's-long tour of France and Belgium, with his companion, Mr. Danneley, in the summer of 1817. Includes accounts of the Louvre, Versailles, Notre Dame, the Palais Royal, Tuilleries, and the Paris opera, as well as the Parisian gambling houses and their "wretched" inhabitants. Leaving Paris, the two travel to Brussles and then to Waterloo: "to look at it you would never suppose it had been the place of so much bloodshed." With three watercolors ("a view of Calais, from the road"; crucifix, tree and field; horse-drawn wagon) and several pencil sketches.
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319