… Image Giuseppe Cades, ‘Gavin Hamilton Leading a Party of GrandTourists to the Archaelogical Site at Gabii’, 1793, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, D 5361. Image Franciszek … Résumé James Byres settled in Rome in the 1750s and lived in the Eternal City for over thirty years, at a time when the GrandTour reached its height of popularity. Working as a guide, antiquarian, art dealer and architect, Byres rapidly …
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… focus on manners and conviviality. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Blasphemy Diaries GrandTour Politics Religion Secrecy Travel The history of Sir Francis Dashwood, 11 th Baron le Despencer (1708-1781), is … SP 91/14/142. Dashwood was a well-traveled man. Like many of his upper-class contemporaries, Dashwood undertook a GrandTour, starting in 1726 at the age of eighteen. Not much is known about his initial years of travel, except that he …
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… Duke of Wharton (1698 – 1731), whose life was mired in controversy. Having married below his status, he was sent on a GrandTour but escaped his tutor in Geneva and set out to France. There he met the exiled Pretender in 1716, marking the … Hell-fire Club belonged to Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-1781), who had already acquired a rakish reputation during his GrandTour. However, most of the information regarding his more outlandish deeds – wooing the Czarina by pretending to be …
… Horace Walpole est le troisième fils du célèbre ministre Robert Walpole. Après des études à Cambridge, il entreprend le GrandTour avant de débuter une carrière politique, qui l’ennuie rapidement. Fervent épistolier, collectionneur, il voyage … d’agollées sablées, de tonnelles de verdure et de grottes artificielles, que le célèbre Horace Walpole, artiste et poète grand seigneur, avait choisi sa résidence d’été ; et c’était là qu’il avait meublé à sa fantaisie cette jolie bonbonnière …