CLM-SEAAIR-001 · VERIFIED

Sea air at Greenwich in an 1845 sketch by Gautier

In Une journée à Londres, collected in Zigzags (1845), Théophile Gautier describes the pensioners of the royal naval hospital at Greenwich watching ships leave and return from the benches of its colonnades, while the acrid smell of the sea still comes to delight them.

SCOPE

A French writer's travel sketch of Greenwich, published in 1845; it records his impression then, not the air there today.

SUPPORT CHECK

The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the text of the cited page or chapter of the digitised source, fetched from the named service, and an editor read that whole text against every part of the claim. The passage is cited by its locator; SmellBook does not reproduce the passage. Source text from Wikisource (proofread transcription).

HISTORICAL PASSAGE

Zigzags, p. 139 Printed page 139 is image 136 of the digitised volume.
Time described: 1845. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Checked 2026-10-05.

LIFECYCLE

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CANONICAL PROFILES1

Sea AirSB-0007↗

SUPPORTING SOURCES1

VERIFIEDPRIMARY

Zigzags

Théophile Gautier

Victor Magen

1845

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Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:sea-air-at-greenwich-in-an-1845-sketch-by-gautier · Graph record (JSON)

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.