Journal of a tour in Belgium, 1839
- Creator:
- Dyott, John?
- Published/Created:
- 1839
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (ca. 110 p., 50 p. text) ; 26 x 21 cm.
- Notes:
- Spine title: "Tour in Belgium 1839".
Binding: contemporary half morocco, gilt decoration on spine, with marbled end papers.
For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Multiple blanks not digitized. - Abstract:
- Holograph narrative of a two week tour of Belgium. The author and his companion took the steam-ship "Menoir" to Ostend on June 26th; traveled by train to Bruges and Ghent, where they viewed paintings, principal buildings, and the Convent of the Beguine Nuns; spent several days in Brussels; and visited Waterloo, noting that the Hougemont was "precisely in the same state as it was the day after the Battle." They continued on to Mecklin and sailed for England after spending their final days sightseeing in Antwerp.
The journal is illustrated with many laid-down engravings and several watercolors. The last eight leaves contain pasted-in bills, hotel passes, train tickets, theater programs, and other ephemera. (Two of the bills are made out to "John Dyott" and "John DeWitt."). - Topics:
- Railroad travel
Tourists
Travelers' writings, English
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815--Description and travel - Topics:
- Belgium--Description and travel
- Genre:
- Clippings
Drawings
Ephemera
Illustrations
journals (accounts): diaries (AAT)
prints: woodcuts (AAT)
wash drawings
Wood engravings - Format:
- Mixed Material
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Call Number:
- Osborn d378
- Orbis Record:
- 7041479
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection
- oid pointer:
- 11253547
- Citation:
- John Dyott?, Journal of a Tour in Belgium. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete work digitized.
- OID:
- 11252578
- PID:
- digcoll:3967305
