Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… 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 … the National Archives, Kew, with the reference: SP 91/14/142. Dashwood was a well-traveled man. Like many of his upper-class contemporaries, Dashwood undertook a Grand Tour, starting in 1726 at the age of eighteen. Not much is known about … the latter forming a decidedly unfavorable opinion of him. 6 While his time in Italy led to a fascination with classical architecture – an interest that would later be reflected in the reconstructions of his family seat in West …
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