BIB_ID
426752
Accession number
MA 2602.2
Creator
Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836.
Display Date
Venice, Italy, 1801 March 24.
Credit line
Purchased, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 28.4 x 19.2 cm
Notes
Jane Milnes Smith was William Gell's aunt, the sister of Gell's mother Dorothy Milnes Gell and the wife of the Rev. John Smith.
Address panel with postmarks to "Mrs. Smith / Aldercar Park / Nottingham / Inghilterra / Angleterre
Address panel with postmarks to "Mrs. Smith / Aldercar Park / Nottingham / Inghilterra / Angleterre
Provenance
Purchased from W.A. Myers, Ltd., 1968.
Summary
Describing his travels since he left England in October; relating the customs and manners and sights he has observed on his travels from Hamburg to Weimar, Leipsig, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Trieste and Venice; describing the architecture of Venice and adding "The men & the women spend the greatest part of their time in the coffee houses which are very numerous. They are hospitable, polite & friendly, besides being witty & musical a strange contrast to the unsociable and unamiable manners of the nation we had just quitted;" adding that he hopes to see the ruins of the palaces on the Brenta before continuing on to Constantinople.
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