Carr, Anna Margaret, 1797-1872, Album of drawings of France and Italy, 1827
- Call Number:
- MSS 8
- Creator:
- Carr, Anna Margaret, 1797-1872
- Title(s):
- Album of drawings of France and Italy
- Date:
- 1827
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series I: Travel sketches
- Part of Collection:
- Oversize 5
- Provenance:
- Acquired 2009, Paul Mellon Fund.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Labeled "Foreign Sketches 1827" on the spine. This album seems to record the start of Anna Margaret Carr's 1827-8 voyage to the Continent, beginning near Paris (the first labeled sketch is in Montreuil, France, on 7 September 1827) and tracing her voyage southeast into Italy and eventually to Pisa, where the sketchbook ends in November 1827 (though she remained there through early 1828). The drawings are pasted into the album in rough chronological order. In her first week near Paris, Anna Margaret visited Abbeville and St. Germain. She spent two weeks traveling southeast toward the Italian border, visiting Auxerre, Autun, Chalon-sur-Saône, Lyons, Les Echelles, Aiguebelle, Montmeillant, and various places in Savoy (including Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, "Lans le Bourg", and Modane) before crossing into Italy. In Italy, she traveled southeast along the Mediterranean coast to Sarzana, Spezzia and the "Mountains of Carara" (Carrara, the source of Michelangelo's marble) in early October, finally arriving in Pisa, where the album ends. She seems to have arrived in Pisa at some point in mid-October 1827, but some Pisa sketches are dated November as well (the next volume reveals that she stayed in Pisa through the spring).
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (63 drawings) : graphite, some with watercolor ; 32 x 47 cm
- Genre:
- Watercolors (paintings), Pictorial works, Travel sketches, Graphite drawings, Diaries, Genealogies, Scrapbooks, Sketchbooks, Landscape drawings, Views, Charcoal drawings, Engravings (prints), Photographs, and Wash drawings
- Subject Terms:
- ChronGrand tours (Education)HistorySocial life and customsWomen artistsWomen travelers
- Subject Period:
- 1824-1899
- Associated Places:
- EuropeFranceGreat BritainItalyNorthumberland (England)Pisa (Italy)Switzerland
- Associated People/Groups:
- Carr familyCarr, Anna Margaret, 1797-1872Carr, Harriet, 1829-1889Carr, Thomas William, 1830-1912Cranworth, Laura Rolfe, Lady, 1807-1868Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron, 1790-1868Eshott House (Alnwick, England)Lushington, Sarah Grace, 1794-1837
- Finding Aid Title:
- Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3306
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3306?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1