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John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… Image François Ferrière, ‘John Ramsay, 1768-1845 ; son of Allan Ramsay the artist’, 1794, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, PG 1478. Résumé In 1782, John Ramsay undertook a journey to Italy with … busy social life and shared his experience of practices of sociability in Italian cities. Being the son of a renowned artist, 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 > …
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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… Image Pietro Fabris, ‘Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, 1744-1781, at home in Naples: concert party’, National Galleries of Scotland, PG2611, 1770. Image Pietro Fabris, ‘Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth … period. It reached its most recognisable form, and the height of its popularity, in the eighteenth century. Fully part of the eighteenth-century world of sociability, the Grand Tour simultaneously acted as a formative, experimental … universities and at certain courts and cities. Grand Tourists would tour cabinets of curiosities, collections of arts and antiquities, battlefield and fortresses. They would take in classical ruins and modern sites of industry and …
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