Mozart in Liege 1763 (2nd October)
Received today from Belgium (kindness of the Chargee de Relations exterieures of the Liege Bourgmestre) a copy of a rare lithograph from 1835 of the hotel (now demolished) where Mozart and his father stayed overnight on 2nd October 1763 on tour. (They arrived at 9pm having come from Aachen and left at around 7.30 the next morning - so not much more to say than that).
The hotel was called 'L'Aigle Noir' ('The Black Eagle') and was a quite ornate four storey building (windows with shutters) and a central arch through which carriages and horses could be kept at the rear.
I mention this because Liege (together with Stoneyhurst in England) opened a college that became a focal point for art and music to Jesuit students after 1773 - escaping the ban by having a sympathetic archbishop who refused to impose it in both places.
(The lithgraph is by Cremetti).