John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… In 1782, John Ramsay undertook a journey to Italy with his father Allan, King George III’s Painter in Ordinary. Their tour lasted two years and for the entire duration of their stay, John Ramsay kept a diary in which he recorded his busy … he was invited to attend many concerts, plays and conversazioni where he met a great number of people including artists, Grand Tourists, ambassadors and even the King of Sweden. People > Travel People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Mots-clés Art Cosmopolitanism Diaries Diplomacy Education Entertainement Grand Tour Italy John Ramsay’s Italian diary was published by The Walpole Society in 2003; it is accompanied by a short …
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