THE GRAND TOUR FREE DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE
A selection of digitised source material from the Brinsley Ford Archive at the Paul Mellon Centre, London.It also functions as a database of Grand Tour manuscripts not included in the resource. This remarkable work identifies over 6000 individual Grand Tourists, providing biographies and details of their tours. A searchable, full-text version of John Ingamell’s landmark Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800.The urban environment and architecture of cities such as Paris, Geneva, Venice, Rome, Florence and Naples.Rosemary Sweet, University of Leicester.Edward Chaney, Southampton Solent University.
Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.Paintings and sketches of Italy and the Continent, as well as portraits of Grand Tourists, by artists including: JMW Turner, Pompeo Batoni, Richard Wilson, William Pars, Thomas Rowlandson and Joseph Wright of Derby.Fenimore Cooper, Tobias Smollett and Henry Matthews Authors include Henry Swinburne, Mariana Starke, J. Rare printed sources, including travel accounts, guide books, histories and accounts of religious and political life.Accounts from female travellers, including Lady Hester Stanhope and Elizabeth Craven.
Manuscripts of many prominent figures, including Sir William Hamilton, Sir Thomas Hoby, Richard Lassels, Sir Philip Sidney, John Evelyn, Charles Burney and Joseph Spence are featured. A wealth of detail about cities such as Paris, Rome, Florence and Geneva, including written accounts and visual representations of street life, architecture and urban planning. European political and religious life, British diplomacy life at court, and social customs on the Continent, and is an invaluable resource for the study of Europe’s urban spaces. Daily life in the eighteenth century, including everyday issues as transportation, money, communications, food and drink, health and sex. Opportunity to compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections. This collection has a very broad appeal, and will be of great interest to: social, cultural and political historians interested in the period 1550-1850 literary scholars and art historians or fine art departments. It also includes many writings by forgotten or anonymous travellers, including many women, whose daily experiences offer a vivid insight into the experience and practicalities of travel across the centuries. The Grand Tour includes the travel writings and works of some of Britain’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers, revealing how interaction with European culture shaped their creative and intellectual sensibilities. This digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows students and researchers to explore and compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections. Taking the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as a starting point, this resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe from c.1550 to 1850, exploring the Anglo-European response to continental travel for pleasure, business and diplomacy.
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