John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… the artist’, 1794, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, PG 1478. Résumé In 1782, John Ramsay undertook a journey to Italy with his father Allan, King George III’s Painter in Ordinary. Their tour lasted two years and for the entire … Objects > Diaries & Letters Mots-clés Art Cosmopolitanism Diaries Diplomacy Education Entertainement Grand Tour Italy 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 names of all the people Ramsay met during his stay in Italy. Preserved at the National Library of Scotland, this diary was written in two notebooks. The first entry is from 11 …
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