The grand tour, 1550-1915 1700-1820.

Format:

Database & Article Index

Website/Database

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)

Standardized Title:

Grand tour (Marlborough, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, British.

Grand tours (Education).

Visitors, Foreign--Europe.

Visitors, Foreign.

Travelers--Great Britain.

Travelers.

Civilization.

Politics and government.

History.

Art.

Manners and customs.

Europe--Description and travel.

Europe.

Italy--Description and travel.

Italy.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--18th century--Sources.

Great Britain.

Europe--Social life and customs--18th century--Sources.

Art--History--Sources.

Europe--History--Sources.

Europe--Politics and government--18th century--Sources.

Civilization, Classical.

Great Britain--Civilization--Classical influences.

Europe--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Art, British.

Architecture--Europe.

Architecture.

Florence (Italy)--Description and travel.

Florence (Italy).

Rome (Italy)--Description and travel.

Rome (Italy).

Venice (Italy)--Description and travel.

Venice (Italy).

Paris (France)--Description and travel.

Paris (France).

Naples (Italy)--Description and travel.

Naples (Italy).

Pompeii (Extinct city).

Vesuvius (Italy)--Eruption, 79.

Vesuvius (Italy).

Society of Dilettanti (London, England).

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

1550-1915

Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2009.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows scholars to explore the history of British travel in Europe between 1550 and 1850 from every angle. It includes letters, diaries and journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings and sketches, architectural drawings and maps. Many sources are from private or neglected archives. It also provides a source of information about daily life in the eighteenth century, highlighting such everyday issues as transportation, money, communications, food and drink, health and sex. The material covers European political and religious life, British diplomacy, life at court, social customs on the Continent, and material culture, taste and collecting. There is a wealth of detail about cities such as Paris, Geneva, Venice, Rome, Florence and Naples of interest to both urban and architectural historians.

Notes:

Title from home page (viewed on 8 Oct. 2009)

Includes materials by or about: Joseph Addison, David Allan (1744-1796), Thomas Banks, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, Pompeo Batoni, Mary Berry (1763-1852), Sir Charles Blagden, Robert Browning, Dr Charles Burney, William Callow, John Robert Cozens, Baroness Elizabeth Berkeley Craven, Robert Dallington, Nathaniel Dance, Michel de Montaigne, John Evelyn, J. Fenimore Cooper, John Flaxman, Sir William Hamilton, Sir Thomas Hoby, Thomas Jones (1742-1803), Richard Lassels, Edward Lear, William Marlow (1740-1813), John Stuart Mill, Jacob More, William Pars, Thomas Patch, Joshua Reynolds, Henry Crabb Robinson, Thomas Rowlandson, Sir Philip Sidney, Tobias Smollett, Joseph Spence, Mariana Starke, Henry Swinburne, Francis Towne, J.M.W. Turner, Joseph Wright, of Derby, Richard Wilson (1713-1782); and various members of the Society of Dilettanti.

Reproduced from original materials held in the following repositories: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; British Institute, Florence; British Library; Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies; Cornwall Record Office; Devon Record Office; Hartley Library, University of Southampton; Private Library of Edward Chaney; Surrey History Centre; West Yorkshire Archive; Woodhorn Northumberland Museum and Archive; Yale Center for British Art; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.

Contains:

Hoby, Thomas, Sir, 1530-1566. Booke of the travaile and lief of me Thomas Hoby.

Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668. Voyage of Italy.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.