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Inscription: notes regarding travel in France: 3685.f.2

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription: notes regarding travel in France
Inscription: continued from recto

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Harvey, William

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1905) by James, Montague Rhodes, Dr

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Brown ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Leaf Height 88 mm Width 114 mm

Techniques used in production

Handwriting : Pen and brown ink on paper

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: At Dover _ Packet Boat Inn _ / Calais _ Hotel de la Coulonne[?] - / _ Crown Inn _ Mr Lawson _ / Paris - Hotel du Mont Blanc - / - Rue de la Paise - Wd - 24 - / ------- / Poites Hotel de Strasbourg rue de Richelieu / will furnish a cabriolet for a day reasonably / ------- / Monsieur Nimue chez Madame Ducaud / Hotel Vigan, Passage Vigan / Rue Tasse / Moutinache / Bewick - / Monsieur Martin - / 21 Rue des Noyes / St Jacques
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Text: The Coupé is by far the most / comfortable and the most genteel part / of the diligence - / French money is given in exchanges / for English at a shop on the quay at / at the rate of 25 francs for 1 £ - / at the same rate at many shops in / Paris -------- / Sévre china to be seen on the road / to Versailles --------- / -------- Rouen to Paris, if by day / be particular to go by the Monte / d' en Bar, (the lower road along the / Seine very beautiful
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3685.f.2
Primary reference Number: 41717
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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