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Thanks everybody for these further references and words of wisdome: i shall have no excuse for not getting down to some painting now. all the best, steve
Author is Émile Vanson Title is Crimée, Italie, Mexique: Lettres De Campagnes, 1854-1867, as i say 1854 is later for me.plus he was in crimean peninsula not danube