John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… visits. This trip was also intended to provide him with a worldly education through contact with other travellers and European social elites and allow him to build up a network of relationships that were to be useful for his career upon … Abbé Peter Grant (1708-1784), British travellers who stayed in Rome as well as artists and antique dealers from all over Europe. Among those who were regularly invited to the Ramsays' were the painters Hugh Douglas Hamilton (c. 1740-1808), … Ramsay to be in contact with the British elite passing through these cities, the local nobility as well as members of European royal families undertaking the Grand Tour. Thus, on 3 December 1783, while residing in Florence, he wrote in his …
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