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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… London’, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (vol. 34, no. 4, 2017), p. 279-297. 4 . On the excessive height of the Pagoda, Horace Walpole commented ‘we begin to perceive the Tower of Kew from Montpellier Row; in a fortnight you will see it in Yorkshire’. Horace Walpole, letter to Earl of Strafford, July 5, 1761, in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, ed. Peter …

Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… Duke of Marlborough, Sir Hans Sloane, the Duchess of Portland, the Duke of Cumberland, the Earl of Shelburne, Sir Robert Walpole, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and many others used to collect exotic animals in their private … de Voltaire, A Letter from Mr. Voltaire to Mr. Jean Jacques Rousseau (London: Payne, 1766), p. 35. 4 . ‘William Mason to Horace Walpole, 2 June 1773’, in Warren Hunting Smith and George Lam (eds.), Horace Walpole’s Correspondence 1756-1799 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955), p. 90-91. ‘It is, however, most …

Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]

… with what he interprets as a widespread corruption of sociable values overseen by the Whig prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. When he describes himself in one of his imitations of Horace as ‘ To virtue only and her friends , a friend ’, not only does Pope demonstrate the self-serving nature of his sociable ethos, applying to himself a line that Horace had used about a separate figure, but he also contributes to a sense of oppositional solidarity, friendship as a …

John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]

… Italy Cosmopolitanism International Networks Art entertainment John Ramsay’s Italian diary was published by The Walpole Society in 2003; it is accompanied by a short introduction by John Ingamells, as well as an index containing the … salons organised by the British diplomats Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803), Ambassador to the court of Naples, and Sir Horace Mann (1706-1786), Envoy at Florence, who were close friends of Allan Ramsay. This allowed John Ramsay to be in … undertaking the Grand Tour. Thus, on 3 December 1783, while residing in Florence, he wrote in his diary: ‘Went to Sr Horace's at 8 found the King of Sweden and all the company come and most of them playing at cards. We set down to a very …

Saint James's [ Cities ]

… for a sociable culture deployed in numerous visits − often made by women − as well as balls and assemblies (Greig 139). Horace Walpole, who attended the reception at the opening of the state apartments at Norfolk House, commented: ‘ All the earth … Granville, Mrs. Delany, ed. Lady Llanover, 1st series (London: Richard Bentley, 1861), vol. 3, p. 409; The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Mrs Paget Toynbee, 16 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), vol. 3, February 12, 1756, p. 396. St …

Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… leurs collections dans les demeures situées à la campagne ou à proximité de Londres, comme celle installée par Horace Walpole dans sa demeure de Strawberry Hill, située près de Twickenham. 9  Visitant Castle Howard en août 1772, Walpole … of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Oxford Art Journal (vol. 29, n° 2, 2006), p. 167–84. 9 . Horace Walpole, A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole: Youngest Son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at …