Record Number: 30769

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have finally decided to come north tomorrow at 2.15. I don't like not to be there — I can read Strzygowski all the way in the train, pace you! I shall come back here on Sat. by the late train.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Feb 1896 and 6 May 1896

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

other location: train between London and Middlesborough

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Gertrude Bell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Jul 1868

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Oxford graduate, language student, yet to take up formal occupations as archaeologist and later, political advisor

Religion:

Christian (Anglican) later declared herself atheist

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Josef Strzygowski

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Arts / architecture

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

read in the original German

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30769

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Information:

On-line archive of Gertrude Bell's letters and diaries (transcribed) http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk

Additional Information:

Letter from Gertrude Bell to Florence Bell, February 1896,London http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/letter_details.php?letter_id=413

Citation:

On-line archive of Gertrude Bell's letters and diaries (transcribed) http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk , http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30769, accessed: 14 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

By 1896 Strzygowski had published, either alone or with Philipp Forchheimer, at least four books in German on art history, including "Die acht Handzeichnungen des Sandro Botticelli zu Dantes Göttlicher Komödie im Vatikan: ein Supplement zu dem Codex im Kgl. Kupferstichkabinet zu Berlin" (1887); "Die Calenderbilder des Chronographen vom Jahre 354" (1888); "Cimabue und Rom : Funde und Forschungen zur Kuntstgeschichte und zur Topographie der Stadt Rom" (1888) "Die Byzantinisch en Wasserbehälter von Konstantinopel "(1893) ;"Topographie von Konstantinopel von Philipp Forchheimer und Josef Strzygowski, mit Unterstützung des K. K. Ministeriums für Cultus und Unterricht (1893). It is unclear which of these Gertrude Bell was reading.