Author: FLORENCE
Title: York Hotel, Florence. Sambalino, Proprietor.
Description: London: James Davis, sculptor, c. 1820. Trade card, 100 x 135 mm. printed both sides. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. In 1820 a Domenico Sambelino was running the 'Hotel de Yorck' in Via Forca, where an English visitor found 'Bug, Fleas, Lizard, Mouse and Scorpion' in his wife's bed. [The Anglo-Florentines: The British in Tuscany, 1814-1860 By Diana Webb and Tony Webb. 2019]

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