'The English Journey': Journal of a Visit to Frnace and Britain in 1826
New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Forest-green cloth, gilt letters on spine, tan & illus. dust jacket, 220 pp., 190 BW illus. VG. Item #138190
ISBN: 0300041179
"In 1826 the great German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel made a tour of France, England, Scotland and Wales. It was a technial mission, undertaken on behalf of the Prussian State, with the purpose of seeing the factories, bridges, warehouses and museums that were under construction at the time. He kept a journal in which he recorded the new buildings he saw in Paris as well as his busy social life there; he mused about Britain, its inhabitants and its architecture, and sketched the workshops and machinery that interested him. This book contains the first compelte translation into English of Schinkel's journal, as well as the drawings he made while he was travelling." (dj).
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