Main entry:

Shackelford, George Green.

Title & Author:

Thomas Jefferson's travels in Europe, 1784-1789 / George Green Shackelford.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Description:

219 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Maps on lining-papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index.
Prologue : an American for Paris -- From Boston to the Champs Élysées -- The Paris Jefferson knew -- Court and country : Versailles, Fontainbleau, and La Roche-Guyon -- In England -- Marly and Maria Cosway -- From Paris to Marseilles -- Northern Italy -- Nîmes and Clérisseau -- Through Languedoc and Gascony to Toulouse and Bordeaux -- From Blaye to Paris via Brittany and the Loire Valley -- The Netherlands -- In the Rhineland and from Strasbourg to Paris -- Epilogue : Apostle of European culture.

Summary:

"During his time as minister to the court of Louis XVI, from 1784 to 1789, Thomas Jefferson became not only a friend of France but also the champion of European culture in the United States. Because the man who was to become America's third president learned so much from his five years abroad--about the fine arts of architecture and painting and about the practical arts of agriculture, bureaucracy, and commerce--his stay in Europe remains one of the most important of any American before or since. In the first book to describe and explore the significance of Jefferson's European journey, George Green Shackelford offers the reader an intimate and richly detailed account of what Jefferson saw and how he saw it. In the process, he assesses the influence on Jefferson of such figures as the architect Charles Louis Clérisseau and the artist Maria Cosway. Illustrated with more than sixty contemporary images of the places Jefferson visited and described, Jefferson's Travels in Europe shows how Jefferson's journeys in France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, and the German Rhineland shaped his intellectual and aesthetic development. Coaxing meaning out of Jefferson's account books and correspondence, and the parallel experiences of other travelers of the day, Shackelford has created a unique document, one that bears 'a general resemblance to the book that Thomas Jefferson never wrote, his Notes on Europe'"--Dust jacket.

ISBN:

(alk. paper)
0801848431
0801859506 (paperback)
9780801859502 (paperback)
9780801848438

Subject:

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Travel Europe.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. European travel diaries.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Jefferson, Thomas.
EUROPE.
Travel.
Reise
Reizen.
Geschichte 1784-1789.
Europe Description and travel.
Europe Descriptions et voyages.
Europe.
Europa
Europe, Western Description and travel.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121661
Call No.: ID NA44.J45; ID:95-B2348
Status: Available