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'The English Journey': Journal of a Visit to France and Britain in 1826

'The English Journey': Journal of a Visit to France and Britain in 1826 Hardcover - 1993

by Schinkel, Karl Friedrich (David Bindman and Gottfried Rieman, editors)

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New Haven CT, Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1993, oblong hardcover (9.25" x 9"), vii-220 pp, First Edition in English translation by F. Gayna Walls, First Printing, Near Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket as new, slight spine-end bumps. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, Schinkel's own account of his Prussian State-sponsored tour of Great Britain and France for the purpose of seeing the factories, bridges, warehouses and museums under construction at the time. The text is augmented by descriptive letters to his wife, numerous illustrations and pages from his journal, and contemporary engravings of the places mentioned. Appended; Abbreviations, Itinerary and Index. ISBN 9780300041170
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From the rear cover

In 1826 the great German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel made a tour of France, England, Scotland and Wales. It was a technical 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 complete translation into English of Schinkel's journal, as well as the drawings he made while he was travelling. The journal marks a crucial point in Schinkel's career, for it represents the beginning of his serious involvement with the new technologies that he later employed in the buildings he designed on his return to Berlin. At the same time the journal gives a unique impression of Regency Britain as seen by a foreign architect. Sites that no longer exist in London, Oxford and Edinburgh, as well as the potteries, the Menai straits and the industrial towns and factories of northern Britain are recreated here through Schinkel's discussions and drawings, among the very few surviving records of the face of Britain at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Part travelogue and part cultural critique, the book will appeal to students of the architect himself it will also be invaluable for all those interested in early nineteenth-century Britain. The text, which is augmented by Schinkel's long descriptive letters to his wife, is accompanied by numerous illustrations of drawings and pages from the journal, and contemporary engravings ofthe places mentioned, as well as a full introduction and explanatory notes.

About the author

David Bindman is professor of the history of art at University College, London. Gottfried Riemann is a curator of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

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