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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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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… Image Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 'Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante', Wikimedia Commons, Walker Art Gallery, LL 3527, 1790. Image Georges Romney, 'Emma Hamilton', © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 4448, circa … the first Lady Hamilton in their villa in Naples’, © Compton Verney, CVCSC : 0357.B, 1770. Image George Romney, 'Emma Hart as Circe', Tate Britain, N05591, 1782. Image George Romney, 'Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante', Wikimedia Commons, 1785. … 2 Naples had, by the late eighteenth century, become a requisite stop as a Grand Tour destination, due, in large part, to the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum and to Vesuvius being in an active phase. During the 35 years he spent …
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