Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… Image Nathaniel Dance, ‘Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron Le Despencer’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1345, 1776. Résumé A well-travelled man, Francis Dashwood, 11 th Baron le Despencer, was a founding member of … the Dilettanti and the Divan Club, and a vital contributor to the proliferation of neo-classicism in eighteenth-century London. He is best known for inciting the lurid imagination of Grub Street through the creation of the Brotherhood of St. … come to be known as the Hell-fire Club. Thus, on the one hand, Dashwood’s life highlights the importance of traveling to London’s eighteenth-century club scene, specifically how the impressions gathered in other countries influenced the …
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