… people. In addition to increasing the travellers' knowledge, their artistic tastes and preferences were permanently influenced by their contact with Byres. Giuseppe Cades, ‘Gavin Hamilton Leading a Party of Grand Tourists to the …
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… like the Society of the Dilettanti (originating out of Grand Tour friendships formed in the early 1730s), had an influence that endured even after travel had ceased. 18 Fully part of the eighteenth-century world of sociability, the …