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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… from across Europe. He showed them his vast collections of antiquities, accompanied them to excavation sites, and shared with them his passion for vulcanology. Different forms of entertainment were also organized for them. His first wife … in the archaeological explorations that were feeding the development of neoclassicism and/or who were interested in witnessing the volcanic activity. Sir William’s home thus became a hub of sociability, where people coming from far and … had the opportunity to be together in the same space. Sir William was the perfect host and shared his various passions with his guests. He accompanied them to excavations sites and showed them his vast collections of virtú – all occasions …
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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 duration of … diaries written by such a young Grand Tour traveller have come down to us. Most often it is through correspondence with the family who remained in Great Britain or the diaries kept by the tutors accompanying the young travellers that we … Britain as he was also famous in France and Italy, where he had studied between 1736 and 1738. Before making the trip with his son John, he had returned to Italy twice from 1754 to 1757, then from 1775 to 1777. The fame of the painter as …
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Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… gathered in other countries influenced the practices of the clubs he founded; on the other hand, his involvement with the Hell-fire Club provides a remarkable if distorted mirror image of the eighteenth-century society’s focus on … and political conduct as laudable, 1 and in 1733 Baron Forbes (1685-1765) 2 had no issue entrusting a young Dashwood with vital political correspondence about the ongoing events at the court of St. Petersburg, stating that Dashwood’s presence afforded him the licence ‘to write with more freedom’. 3 As a testimony to his character, Dashwood was using his influence to provide the unemployed with …
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