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These first sixteen months include two distinct journeys: Whitney’s trip from New York to Rome (March–April 1867) and her movement around Europe that summer and fall (June–October 1867); she remained in Rome from April to June 1867, and again from October 1867 to July 1868. The first two links in the article, indicated by a globe icon, correspond to these two journeys, which Jenifer visualized by creating lines and arrows on the map between each city or town.The article "Mapping the 'White Marmorean Flock': Anne Whitney Abroad, 1866-1867" uses Whitney's extensive correspondence to create a timeline and associated maps of her travels.

In the case of the sculptor Anne Whitney (1821–1915), however, her extensive correspondence, most of which is preserved in the Wellesley College archives, provides an incredibly vivid first-hand account of her travels with her companion, the painter Addy Manning. Taking advantage of this documentation, my article and the associated maps and timeline illustrate the richness and variety of one woman’s life abroad, providing a chronological, close-up view of Whitney’s first sixteen months of travel, from March 1867 to July 1868. During this time she embarked on two major journeys: the first took

Wellesley College has launched a project to transcribe the letters of Anne Whitney.