Wilson Online Reference
Ingamells 1997
Author
John Ingamells
Title/Description
A Dictionary of English and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800
Publisher
Yale University Press
Country
New Haven, USA and London, UK
Date of Publication
1997
Printed/Manuscript
Secondary published
Source Institution
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London
More Information
lii + 1070 pp., compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive. This indispensable dictionary identifies over 6,000 British and Irish travellers, and over 300 artists including Richard Wilson (pp. 1007-8), sculptors and architects who visited Italy in the 18th century. Ingamells gives brief formal biographies, their Italian itineraries and selective accounts of their experiences as described in contemporary sources. The book also contains five useful appendices: Maps, Political Chronology, Italian Rulers, Supplementary Biographical Notes and British and Irish Artists in Italy.
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