收录了英国著名艺术家、作家和学者的游学作品，展示出他们在与欧洲文化的接触中是如何培养了创造性思维以及智力灵敏度。同时还收录了许多被遗忘或无名的游学者的作品，包括许多女性作品，其中的日常生活描写展示了几个世纪以来她们在游学旅行中生动的观察。本数据库中的手稿、图片和印刷品让学者可以从各个视角探寻这一时期安格鲁撒克逊人和欧洲人的关系。涵盖主题包括：欧洲政治和宗教生活，英联邦外交，物质文化、体验和收藏，日常生活，欧洲大陆宫廷生活和社会民俗。
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
Period Covered
- 1550-1850
Highlights
- Opportunity to compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections
- Daily life in the eighteenth century, including everyday issues as transportation, money, communications, food and drink, health and sex
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Accounts from female travellers, including Lady Hester Stanhope and Elizabeth Craven
- Rare printed sources, including travel accounts, guide books, histories and accounts of religious and political life. Authors include Henry Swinburne, Mariana Starke, J. Fenimore Cooper, Tobias Smollett and Henry Matthews
- 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
Source Archives
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Birmingham Art Gallery
- British Library
- Buckinghamshire Archives
- Cornwall Record Office
- Devon Record Office
- Durham University Library
- Northumberland County Archive
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- Private Library of Edward Chaney
- Surrey History Centre
- West Yorkshire Archives
- Yale Center for British Art
Material Types
- Letters
- Diaries and journals
- Account books
- Printed guidebooks
- Published travel writing
- Paintings and sketches
- Architectural drawings
- Maps
Subjects
- European political and religious life
- British diplomacy
- Material culture, taste and collecting
- Everyday life
- Life at court
- The urban environment and architecture of cities such as Paris, Geneva, Venice, Rome, Florence and Naples
- Transportation
- Money
- Communications
- Food and drink
- Health and sex