France. 'From Calais to...Bretagne' [Normandy and Brittany]
France. 'From Calais to...Bretagne'. Includes elaborate title-page to Pennant's 'France' by Moses Griffith, with heraldic design and a Gallic rooster.
Some information (e.g. p. 129) supplied by Pennant's son David, who toured France and Spain in 1787–1788 collecting information on 'naval strength and commercial advantages and disadvantages' for his father. See Literary Life (1793), p. 31.
The tour begins by recounting the author's passage from Dover to Calais in 1765, along with a watercolour of the view across the channel (p. 2), but the rest is not an account of Pennant's real journey, detailed in Tour on the Continent 1765 (1948), ed. G. R. De Beer, and mapped online as Thomas Pennant's Tour of the Continent by Ffion Mair Jones and Yann Ryan (see link below):
https://networkingarchives.github.io/pennant_map_dashboard
The 'Outlines' tour itinerary for this volume instead roughly follows the coast from Calais through Normandy and Brittany, including the Loire and the Bay of Bourgneuf – the full itinerary for both French volumes can be found in P/16/7.
Prints include several from the series 'Réduit de la Collection des Portes de France dessinés pour le Roi en 1776', N[icholas] Ozanne del.
Index in rear of volume.
Some information (e.g. p. 129) supplied by Pennant's son David, who toured France and Spain in 1787–1788 collecting information on 'naval strength and commercial advantages and disadvantages' for his father. See Literary Life (1793), p. 31.
The tour begins by recounting the author's passage from Dover to Calais in 1765, along with a watercolour of the view across the channel (p. 2), but the rest is not an account of Pennant's real journey, detailed in Tour on the Continent 1765 (1948), ed. G. R. De Beer, and mapped online as Thomas Pennant's Tour of the Continent by Ffion Mair Jones and Yann Ryan (see link below):
https://networkingarchives.github.io/pennant_map_dashboard
The 'Outlines' tour itinerary for this volume instead roughly follows the coast from Calais through Normandy and Brittany, including the Loire and the Bay of Bourgneuf – the full itinerary for both French volumes can be found in P/16/7.
Prints include several from the series 'Réduit de la Collection des Portes de France dessinés pour le Roi en 1776', N[icholas] Ozanne del.
Index in rear of volume.
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