Ivory fan with a view of Piazza del Pantheon in Rome, ca. 1780–1850
Beginning here is a petit tour,
covering curious paths and less well-beaten trails
of the European “grand tour”
of eighteenth-century travellers.
covering curious paths and less well-beaten trails
of the European “grand tour”
of eighteenth-century travellers.
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Miniature portrait of Emma Hart, “Lady Hamilton”, 1804
The Tribuna of the Uffizi in a photograph of the period, ca. 1870–1900
A portrait of Lady Sydney Morgan carved on a medal, 1829
Richard Lassels, The Voyage of Italy, 1670
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italienische Reise (in English as Italian Journey), 1816
The Medici Venus
Richard Deakin, Flora of the Colosseum of Rome, 1855
Pocket watch with an etched view of the Colosseum, ca. 1840–50
Bust of Elisa von der Recke by the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, ca. 1805–1806
One of Pompeo Batoni’s portraits, featuring General William Gordon of Fyvie, 1766
A view of Lake Nemi, 1792
Portrait of Angelica Kauffmann, first half of the nineteenth century
Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi of an ancient marble vase in the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, ca. 1778
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 1768
The Temple of Juno in Agrigento, in a drawing by Emily Lowe, 1859
Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, 1766
Cameos by Francesco Carnesecchi reproducing works by Canova, ca. 1822–44
Macaroni
Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, The memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, 1835
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776
Etching reproducing a detail of the Madonna of Foligno by Raphael, 1780–1820
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Picture Gallery with Views of Ancient Rome, 1775
Portrait of Madame de Staël, 1817
The Gardens of Villa d’Este at Tivoli, 1726
A self-portrait of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1790
Sublime visions
Etching inspired by Guercino’s Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin, 1773
Mary Shelley, History of a Six-Weeks’ Tour, 1817
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Travel, 1625
Jacob Philipp Hackert, The Waterfalls at Tivoli, 1785
Louis Ducros, View of Pompeii, 1778
Johann Zoffany, Charles Townley and his Friends in his Library at Park Street, Westminster, 1781–1790
Lady Sydney Morgan, Italy, 1821
Emily Lowe, Unprotected Females in Sicily, Calabria, and on the Top of Mount Aetna, 1859
Ivory fan with a view of Piazza del Pantheon in Rome, ca. 1780–1850
Miniature portrait of Emma Hart, “Lady Hamilton”, 1804
The Tribuna of the Uffizi in a photograph of the period, ca. 1870–1900
A portrait of Lady Sydney Morgan carved on a medal, 1829
Richard Lassels, The Voyage of Italy, 1670
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italienische Reise (in English as Italian Journey), 1816
The Medici Venus
Richard Deakin, Flora of the Colosseum of Rome, 1855
Pocket watch with an etched view of the Colosseum, ca. 1840–50
Bust of Elisa von der Recke by the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, ca. 1805–1806
One of Pompeo Batoni’s portraits, featuring General William Gordon of Fyvie, 1766
A view of Lake Nemi, 1792
Portrait of Angelica Kauffmann, first half of the nineteenth century
Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi of an ancient marble vase in the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, ca. 1778
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 1768
The Temple of Juno in Agrigento, in a drawing by Emily Lowe, 1859
Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, 1766
Cameos by Francesco Carnesecchi reproducing works by Canova, ca. 1822–44
Macaroni
Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, The memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, 1835
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776
Etching reproducing a detail of the Madonna of Foligno by Raphael, 1780–1820
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Picture Gallery with Views of Ancient Rome, 1775
Portrait of Madame de Staël, 1817
The Gardens of Villa d’Este at Tivoli, 1726
A self-portrait of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1790
Sublime visions
Etching inspired by Guercino’s Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin, 1773
Mary Shelley, History of a Six-Weeks’ Tour, 1817
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Travel, 1625
Jacob Philipp Hackert, The Waterfalls at Tivoli, 1785
Louis Ducros, View of Pompeii, 1778
Johann Zoffany, Charles Townley and his Friends in his Library at Park Street, Westminster, 1781–1790
Lady Sydney Morgan, Italy, 1821
Emily Lowe, Unprotected Females in Sicily, Calabria, and on the Top of Mount Aetna, 1859