Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
James, John Thomas, 1786-1828
Title:
Journal of a tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, during the years 1813 and 1814 / by J.T. James, Esq. student of Christ Church, Oxford.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1816.
Physical Description:
viii, [4], 527, [1] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D919 .J36 1816+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Colored aquatints by J. Clark and colored etchings by Heneage Legge; after John Thomas James.

Printed by T. Davison, Lombard Street, Whitefriars, London.

With a wood-engraved vignette on the title page.

Prideaux, S.T. Aquatint engraving, p. 341

Cat. Russica, No. J89

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 16

BEIN: William Beckford's copy, with his penciled notes.

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in gilt-tooled tree calf. Armorial bookplate: Peter Rashleigh. Spine title: Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, &c.
Contents:
Part of Sweden and the North of Germany -- Sweden -- Finland-Petersburg -- From Petersburg to Moscow and Smolensko -- South of Russia and Poland.
Subject Terms:
Europe -- Description and travel. | Germany -- Description and travel. | Sweden -- Description and travel. | Russia -- Description and travel. | Poland -- Description and travel. | Voyages and travels. | Beckford, William, 1760–1844 -- Binding and ms. notes. | Davison, T. -- Printer. | Murray, John -- Publisher. | Rashleigh, Peter -- Bookplate. | Etching, Colored -- Specimens -- 1816.
Form/Genre:
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1816.
Contributors:
James, John Thomas, 1786–1828, ill. | Clark, J., fl. 1789–1830, engraver. | Legge, Heneage, 1788–1844, engraver.