Category: Site_visit

3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

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3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

Highlights:

Also of interest:

2018_12_30 London (UK): Regent’s canal
2018_12_30 London (UK): St Pancras lock
2019_01_01 London (UK): St Pancras lock
2019_01_01 London (UK): St Pancras station
2018_12_28 London (UK): King’s Cross station
2018_12_31 London (UK): King’s Cross station
  • German Gymnasium, ”constructed in 1864–65 for the German Gymnastics Society, a sporting association established in London in 1861”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Gymnasium%2C_London
  • Maison Berteau, maisonbertaux.com/
  • London Fireworks 2018/2019, Theme: “London is open.” Theme description: “Celebrating London’s relationship with Europe.” – “The fireworks display contained some political imagery relating to Brexit; the theme reflected London’s “relationship with Europe”, opening with the phrase “London is open” (which has been used by Mayor Sadiq Khan, … opponent of the UK’s exit from the European Union) spoken in multiple languages, and featured a sequence where the London Eye was lit in the colours of the flag of Europe…”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_in_London
2019_01_01 London (UK): fireworks
2018_12_29 London (UK): traffic signal

Cf. 4 Jan 2019, Φ London journey, outward (26-27 Dec 2018) and return (3-4 Jan 2019)

2 Jan 2019, Buckingham Palace: State Rooms, Royal Collection, incl. Claude L.

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2 Jan 2019, Buckingham Palace: State Rooms, Royal Collection, incl.Claude L.

The State Rooms, Buckingham Palace: “The Queen’s official London residence and a working royal palace”, www.rct.uk/visit/the-state-rooms-buckingham-palace: The Grand Entrance and Staircase; The Green Drawing Room; The Throne Room; The Ballroom; The White Drawing Room; The Royal Collection.

“The Royal Collection is … a unique and valuable record of the personal tastes of kings and queens over the past 500 years … held in trust by The Queen as Sovereign for her successors and the nation. It is not owned by her as a private individual“, www.rct.uk/collection/about-the-collection

Inquiring about the Claude paintings in the Royal Collection in 1996, the answer implied that viewing the paintings was possible by special permission of the Queen. Today, a State Room tour includes a visit to the gallery.

Claude paintings (MR = Marcel Röthlisberger 1961, The paintings, vol. I, II. LV = Liber veritatis):

  • Harbour Scene at Sunset (1643), www.rct.uk/collection/401382/harbour-scene-at-sunset: “This harbour scene approaches Roman ruins with the same wonderment that Claude approached the Campagna: in reality the Arco degli Argentieri … was in a squalid corner of Rome, but here it is the glorious frame of an idealised harbour with a walled port in the background … The activities of the figures … seem to be calculated to create a mood rather than describe the Italian street: two noble figures contemplate a voyage, while bales of cloth and caskets of treasure are unloaded and a man sleeps …”, MR p. 135-6 (dated 1637; “Differs considerably from the drawing of the Liber”) & fig. 62; LV 19
  • A View of the Campagna from Tivoli (1645), rct.uk/collection/404688/a-view-of-the-campagna-from-tivoli: “The rich intensity of this evening landscape has been revealed by the recent conservation … Unlike the majority of Claude’s works, the picture has no other subject matter than the drama and beauty of the Campagna … This is Claude’s last, and most accurate, topographical composition“, MR p. 245 (“Claude’s most spectacular sunset … This is Claude’s last topographical picture … and the only one of his views of Tivoli … which corresponds to topographical reality, except that the whole scene is somewhat compressed in width… On the horizon, the dome of St. Peter…”) & fig. 169; LV 89
  • Coast scene with the Rape of Europa (1667), www.rct.uk/collection/405357/coast-scene-with-the-rape-of-europa: “The Rape of Europa is recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Jupiter, who was enamoured with the mortal princess Europa … changed himself into a white bull and mingled with a herd of cattle, while Europa and her attendants were gathering flowers near the seashore. Charmed by the bull’s good nature and fine appearance, Europa hung garlands of flowers over its horns and climbed onto its back. She was carried out to sea, to the island of Crete, where Jupiter resumed his normal shape and ravished her … Five versions of this subject by Claude are known, the earliest was painted in 1634. Of these, the one in the Royal Collection is the last and the most sophisticated…”, MR p. 327-8 (“Compared with the first original [in Pushkin Museum, Moscow], the composition is simplified, in conformity with the serene style of Claude’s works of the years around 1667…”); LV 136.

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

1 Jan 2019, Φ John Snow pump in Broadstreet (now: Broadwick Street)

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1 Jan 2019, Φ John Snow pump in Broadstreet (now: Broadwick Street)

“The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street … This outbreak, which killed 616 people, is best known for the physician John Snow’s study of its causes and his hypothesis that germ-contaminated water was the source of cholera … This discovery came to influence public health and the construction of improved sanitation facilities beginning in the mid-19th century …”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak

2019_01_01 London (UK): Pump & pub John Snow
2019_01_01 London (UK): John Snow pub

A pump is now installed at the pub, off the original site.

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

1 Jan 2019, Φ Soho Medical Walk

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1 Jan 2019, Φ Soho Medical Walk

Nick Black (2006 / 2009): Walking London’s Medical History. The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd., London.

Walk 4: The Challenging Isle – Soho (p.107 ff.)

Selected items:

  • Soho Square, No. 14: “home of a pioneering figure in British nursing, Mary Seacole. Born in Jamaica in 1805… went and cared for the victims of a cholera epidemic in Panama … … Crimean War …”
  • Soho Square, No. 22: “Dispensary for the Infant Poor, the first dispensary for sick children in England … established in 1769 …moved here in 1772”
  • Soho Square, The Hospital for Women: “established … in 1842 … moved here in 1852”
  • Soho Square, No.32: Linnean Society: “the world’s oldest extant biological society …” … National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart
2019_01_01 London (UK): Dispensary for the Infant Poor
2019_01_01 London (UK): Mary Seacole home
2019_01_01 London (UK): Hospital for Women
2019_01_01 London (UK): Soho Square hut 1926
  • Carlisle Street, No. 38: Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear (1816)
  • Dean Street: Male Hospital, part of the London Lock Hospital
  • Dean Street, No. 42-43: Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear
  • Dean Street, No. 72: Dean Street School of Anatomy
2019_01_01 London (UK): Lock Hospital, Males section
2019_01_01 London (UK): Dean Street School of Anatomy
2019_01_01 London (UK): Royal Ear Hospital
2019_01_01 London (UK): Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy
  • Great Windmill Street: Great Windmill Street School, “the first and most famous private anatomy school in London … The Scottish surgeon William Hunter established the school within months of the Company of Barber-Surgeons splitting in 1745”

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019

31 Dec 2018, London: British Library

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31 Dec 2018, British Library

96 Euston Rd., London NW1 2DB, www.bl.uk/

2018_12_28 London (UK): British Library
2019_01_01 London (UK): British Library

“The collection includes well over 150 million items … 3 million new items are added every year … Over 16,000 people use the collections each day (on site and online) … We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world…”

Pre- / Registration required; conditions of use; “Humanities 2” reading room.

  • Pattison, Mme. Mark (1884): Claude Lorrain, sa vie et ses œuvres, d’apès des documents inédits. Série: Bibliothèque Internationale de l’Art. J. Rouam, Imprimeur-Èditeur, Paris. BL-Shelfmark J/2266.aa.7
  • Bouyer, Raymond (1905): Claude Lorrain, Biographie critique. Série: Les Grands Artistes. Leur Vie – Leur Œuvre. Librairie Renouard, Paris. BL-Shelfmark 2266.bb.20
  • Accademia di Francia a Roma (1982): Claude Lorrain e i pittori lorenesi in Italia nel XVII secolo. De Luca Editore, Roma. BL-Shelfmark F11/3458.

Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019