John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]
… he met a great number of people including artists, Grand Tourists, ambassadors and even the King of Sweden. People > Travel People > Art and Literature Objects > Diaries & Letters Mots-clés Art Cosmopolitanism Diaries Diplomacy Education … May 1784. For almost a year and a half, and almost daily, John Ramsay (1768-1845) wrote of his life and activities as he travelled through Italy in company of his father, the famous portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). From the first … interest. Indeed, they constitute a precious testimony to the importance of the practices of sociability of British travellers at the height of the Grand Tour, an educational journey which was no longer reserved only for the nobility. It …
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