CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

MEMORIALS OF A TOUR.

INTRODUCTION to Part I.

Sonnet-On a View from the Brighton Railway....

Sonnet-Windbound at Folkestone, in Lodgings..

Sonnet-Rouen

A Sketch-Scarcely within reach of the Pencil

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In the Hotel at Avignon. To an itinerant Musician

On the Remains of the Roman Aqueduct, called the Pont

du Gard.........

Shadows-A Fragment. Suggested by a Sea-View on the

Coast of the Mediterranean.........

Genoa. Extract from Manuscript Journal

Spezzia..

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Pisa. Extract from Manuscript Journal

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Sonnet-The Baptistery at Florence

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The Convent of Saint Mark at Florence. Extract from

Manuscript Journal.

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Sonnet-On the devotional Paintings of the early Italian

Masters...........

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Sonnet-On the Portrait of Leopold de' Medici when an

Infant, and on the Bust of the same when Cardinal. 37

The last Moments of Lorenzo de' Medici. From Sismon-

di's History

An historical Event. (A.D. 1174.) From Sismondi's

History

Sonnet-The Wall-Flower in the Coliseum .....

Sonnet-On Guido's Aurora

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in Lon-

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don. Dated, Naples, April 1844 .....

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Convicts at Castelamare. Extract from Manuscript Journal 56

The Walk at Naples. A conversational Sketch

The Contrast, or the Foster-Sisters

The Temple of Neptune at Pæstum

The Ziza, or Emir's Palace.......

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Selinuntum

Sonnet-Girgenti

Sonnet-Washerwomen at the Fountain of Arethusa

The Theatre at Syracuse. Extract from Manuscript Journal 79

Ascent of Mount Etna.

Sonnet-The Cuckoo on

Scylla and Charybdis. Extract from Manuscript Journal.. 101

In the Steam-boat off the Coast of Calabria

The Sacro Eremo, or City of Hermits. The Upper Con-

vent of Camaldoli....

La Verna. Extract from Manuscript Journal

Fire-Flies..........

A Thought at Venice

Sonnet-At Venice

Milan Cathedral

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The Painting of the Last Supper at Milan. Extract from

Manuscript Journal ......

Night, in the Valley of Chamonix. A Fragment..........

Passage of the Col du Géant. Extract from Manuscript

Journal

The Table d'Hôte.....

Le Plan des Dames

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Farewell Crossing the Jura in bad Weather

Observations on Imitation, and especially Sculpture, sug-

gested by Works of Art at home and abroad