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Cole kept a daily diary, which is brief and business-like, but also these more expansive notes written during his travels through Europe between 1830 and 1880. Aside from describing and remarking on the sites and institutions he visited along the way, Cole used these journals as a space to think about the subjects that dominated his career: art and design education, architecture and the management of museums and collections.\r\nThis journal documents a journey to Palermo (Sicily), passing through France, Switzerland and Italy and returning through the German States, between October and December 1868. Cole is accompanied by Lieut.-Col. Henry Y. D. Scott, an architect and army officer in the Royal Engineers, seconded to oversee ongoing construction for the South Kensington Museum. The main purpose of the journey was to visit various buildings across Italy featuring wall and ceiling mosaics and which could serve as examples for mosaic designs to be incorporated in new buildings in South Kensington. As with previous trips, Cole makes copious notes on the architecture of churches, institutions and public buildings along the way. He also takes the opportunity to visit artists, manufacturers, dealers and collectors to acquire both historical and contemporary objects for the South Kensington Museums’ growing collections. His notes are accompanied by detailed sketches of architecture and objects. Bound into the back of the diary is a printed report on the various mosaics Cole and Scott encountered on the journey.  ","physicalDescription":"Diary, notes, sketches and printed reports of a journey to Italy undertaken on behalf of the South Kensington Museum.\n\nPagination: 15, [9], vii, [1], 1-114, 114a-114h, 115-147, [3] p. (interleaved).\nP. 1-[16] constitute Cole's diary of the journey. This is followed by 4 leaves of agendas. An index (vii p.) is followed by detailed notes on the art seen. Between p. 32 and 33 are 4 leaves from another notebook, containing pencil sketches. A printed map, marked with the journey, is bound at the front. \nTwo printed reports, detailing the results of the trip, are bound at the end, including Notes of objects in Italy suitable for reproduction by various methods. Cole, Henry, London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode ... for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1870.\nAlso contains: \r\nMosaic pictures for wall decorations / Cole, Henry, [London? : s.n., 1869]\nSpine title: MSS. notes of journey to Palermo. MDCCCLXVIII.\r\nTitle-page dated 1870.\r\nTitle-page inscribed in ink: 'Henry Cole, his copy. Duplicate in S.K. 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