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Record 5190

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the frieze and the metopes to be the work of Phillias not correct [...]'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 29 Oct 1816
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: location in dwelling: home
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Rev. Benjamin Newton
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1762
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: Rector and J.P.
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ennio Visconti
Title: A letter from the chevalier Antonio Canova
Genre: Arts / architecture
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5190  
Source - Print  
  Author: Benjamin Newton
  Editor: C.P. Fendall
  Title: The Diaries of Benjamin Newton Rector of Wath, 1816-1819
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1993
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 37
  Additional comments: and ed. E.A.Crutchley

Citation: Benjamin Newton, C.P. Fendall (ed.), The Diaries of Benjamin Newton Rector of Wath, 1816-1819 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 37, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5190, accessed: 28 March 2024

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