• Joseph Gwilt (role unspecified)

Travel Diary 'Vol. V'

1836

Drawings include pen and brown ink on wove paper

sheet: 18.3 x 11.0 cm

DR1984:1468:001-177

inscribed - on DR1984:1468:028r, by the author, in brown ink, t.: "Cologne"; c.r.: "The fear of [illeg.] of dinner / at the Table d'Hôte prevented / better recollection of the most / extraordinary monument of / Romanesque art-wich / I must regret though I believe / it has been published"; and l.l. to l.r.: "Dine at Table d'Hôte a very large party at 1/2 past one [inserted with caret] and what / was better a very good dinner, After which JSQ and self to / the Herman Straße to look at the birth house of P.P. Rubens / IN DIESEM HAUSE WARD 1577 29 JUNÎ / AM FESTE D.H.H. APOST. PETRI Û PAULI / GEBOREN Û PFARRK S. PETRI GETAUFT / PETER PAULUS RUBENS / Etc Etc / From this house we went on to St. Peter's Church to see the picture / there painted by Rubens / (it being the church in which he was baptised and as well as John was much disappointed with it. It / is a caricature throughout - The sacristan said he could not / shew us the Picture under 2 francs, which was pour le service / de l'Eglise / Retired at 1/2 past