… Image Giuseppe Cades, ‘Gavin Hamilton Leading a Party of GrandTourists to the Archaelogical Site at Gabii’, 1793, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, D 5361. Image Franciszek … James Byres settled in Rome in the 1750s and lived in the Eternal City for over thirty years, at a time when the GrandTour reached its height of popularity. Working as a guide, antiquarian, art dealer and architect, Byres rapidly …
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… focus on manners and conviviality. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Keywords Blasphemy Diaries GrandTour Politics Religion Secrecy Travel The history of Sir Francis Dashwood, 11 th Baron le Despencer (1708-1781), is … SP 91/14/142. Dashwood was a well-traveled man. Like many of his upper-class contemporaries, Dashwood undertook a GrandTour, starting in 1726 at the age of eighteen. Not much is known about his initial years of travel, except that he …
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… my gaining even a momentary triumph over these men, skilled in disputation, and masters of their own language." … GrandTour … Women … Conversation … Autobiography, letters and literary remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) , ed. with notes and an …
… of probity, knowledge, and real taste. We generally pass two or three hours every evening at the conversazionis..." … GrandTour … Italy … Assemblies … Conversation … Diplomacy … John Moore, A View of Society and Manners in Italy. …
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… in order to abate my grief [I was very much grieved] was pleased to consent to my going abroad, in order to make the GrandTour, as it is called; having first visited all the British dominions in Europe, Gibraltar and Minorca excepted. I then … [p. 57] my abhorrence of the vile practice of duelling." … Fiction … Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In seven volumes. …