The Tourist in Switzerland & Italy

Lake shores, bridges and Alpine villages, seen through Samuel Prout's eye for buildings, fill the prints from The Tourist in...

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Lake shores, bridges and Alpine villages, seen through Samuel Prout's eye for buildings, fill the prints from The Tourist in Switzerland & Italy, a record of Romantic travel before the railways changed it. Thomas Roscoe wrote the text and Robert Jennings published the volume in London in 1830, with illustrations after Prout's drawings. The Swiss subjects include Geneva, Chillon and the bridge at Saint-Maurice, along with the smaller buildings and working scenes a traveller met along the road. Architecture sits at the centre of each view, set against water and mountains, and the sequence unfolds as a string of local encounters rather than a mapped itinerary.

Lake shores, bridges and Alpine villages, seen through Samuel Prout's eye for buildings, fill the prints from The Tourist in Switzerland & Italy, a record of Romantic travel before the railways changed it. Thomas Roscoe wrote the text and Robert Jennings published the volume in London in 1830, with illustrations after Prout's drawings. The Swiss subjects include Geneva, Chillon and the bridge at Saint-Maurice, along with the smaller buildings and working scenes a traveller met along the road. Architecture sits at the centre of each view, set against water and mountains, and the sequence unfolds as a string of local encounters rather than a mapped itinerary.

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