Haagse en Rotterdamse kunstenaars op reis in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw. Registers van afgegeven paspoorten voor het buitenland in het Haags Gemeentearchief en het Stadsarchief Rotterdam

Many artists travelled abroad in the nineteenth century, and some of those journeys are noted in the art-historical literature. The registers of the passports that were required for travel abroad are an important and more complete source of information. Applications for passports were made to the local authority where the traveller lived, and the registers record the personal details of the applicant, profession and travel destination. Those registers have evidently been lost in various towns and cities, but they have been preserved in the city archives of The Hague and Rotterdam for the periods 1818-1847 and 1813-1893 respectively. They contain the details of 220 passport applications, which are included in the appendices to this article. What is not known, though, is whether the proposed journeys were actually undertaken and whether the destinations were ever reached.