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James Byres [ Travel ]

… Hugh Douglas Hamilton, ‘James Byres of Tonley’, c. 1782-1791, Aberdeen City Council. Abstract James Byres settled in Rome in the 1750s and lived in the Eternal City for over thirty years, at a time when the Grand Tour reached its height of popularity. Working as a guide, antiquarian, art dealer and architect, Byres rapidly became a key player in Rome’s artistic, cultural and social life. Thanks to his various professional activities, he was a central figure in the social practices of the British Grand Tourists and artists who visited Rome. People > Travel Keywords Art Education Grand Tour Italy Jacobitism Networks The Scotsman James Byres lived for …

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Assemblies in Rome (1781) [ Practices ]

… four, or more, of the nobility, have these assemblies at the same time; and almost all the company of a certain rank in Rome make it a point, if they go to any, to go to all; so that, although there is a great deal of bustle, and a continual … his wife, in public, would not be tolerated. At Cardinal Berni’s assembly, which is usually more crowded than any in Rome, the company are served with coffee, lemonade, and iced confections of various kinds; but this custom is not … acquainted with, you bow to the rest, and enjoy the happiness of being squeezed and pressed among the best company in Rome. I do not know what more can be said of these assemblies; only it may be necessary, to prevent mistakes, to add, …

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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… d’amateurs et de curieux. Grâce au développement des marchés de l’art européen, à Paris, à Londres, à Amsterdam et à Rome, les réseaux de sociabilité autour des collections d’art et d’antiquités, qui se sont construits dès le XVII e … d’antiquités et associé de Charles Townley, de nombreuses statues et peintures qui proviennent des environs de Rome autour de 1771 : ‘From 1771 to 1772 Mansel Talbot spent £ 2.400 on statues, paintings and works of art. Most pieces were bought via Hamilton and Jenkins and came from excavations in Rome and its surroundings, such as from Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli’. 4 Les collectionneurs britanniques passaient une …

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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]

… from 1784 to 1787, Hester Lynch Piozzi described meeting and conversing with a variety of salonniers in Florence, Rome and Venice. 10 Lady Fremantle (nee Wynne) was r aised in the cosmopolitan European elite societies of Germany, … become prime minister in 1770. Less savoury impressions and predications were also accurate. Writing to his sister from Rome in 1756, George Simon Harcourt was surprised to hear ‘[Henry Herbert, 10 th earl of] Pembroke has so good a … to Lord Frederick North. 14 . Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Ms D-LE-E2-18, George Simon Harcourt, Lord Nuneham, Rome, 10 February 1756, to Lady Elizabeth Harcourt. 15 . J. E. O. Screen, ‘Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and …

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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]

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French epistolary novel [ Literary & Artistic genres / Reading & Writing ]

… 2002). Gambelli, Delia, Norci Cangiano, Letizia et Pompejano, Valeria, Il romanzo epistolare in Francia nel Settecento (Rome: Biblink editori, 2008). Haroche-Bouzinac, Geneviève, L’Épistolaire (Paris : Hachette, 1995). Hellegouarc’h, … 2002). Gambelli, Delia, Norci Cangiano, Letizia et Pompejano, Valeria, Il romanzo epistolare in Francia nel Settecento (Rome: Biblink editori, 2008). Haroche-Bouzinac, Geneviève, L’Épistolaire (Paris : Hachette, 1995). Hellegouarc’h, …

Conversation | Correspondence | Fiction | France

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Diplomats in London (1660-1714) [ Politics / Travel ]

… Fantoni, Marcello, Gorse, George, and Smuts, R. Malcolm (eds.), The Politics of Space: European Courts ca. 1500–1750 (Rome: Bulzoni, 2009). Knights, Mark , Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and … Fantoni, Marcello, Gorse, George, and Smuts, R. Malcolm (eds.), The Politics of Space: European Courts ca. 1500–1750 (Rome: Bulzoni, 2009). Knights, Mark , Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and …

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Letter to The Chronicle (1762) [ Concepts ]

… at popularity have studied the amusements & diversions of the people. Caesar’s legacy of his gardens to the Commons of Rome made a greater impression on their minds, & more endeared his memory, than all his great actions. Tho he had enlarged the bounds of his Empire, & extended the glory of the Roman name, yet the people of Rome, so fond of empire & glory, nay, the very legions he had so often led to victory, rather seemd disposed to applaud …

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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]

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