Grand tour souvenirs

From: Antiques & Collecting Magazine | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

"THE GRAND OBJECT of travel is to see the Mediterranean." This confident claim by Dr. Johnson sums up the appeal of Italy-its light, landscape and culture-as the mother country of Europe, which sent 18th-century English gentlemen in their tens of thousands on the Grand Tour, the long, difficult and expensive route south to Rome. It is estimated that 40,000 travellers passed through Calais in the two years after the peace treaty of 1763 alone. Italy may have been a political morass, yet it could still revitalize northern Europeans who basked in its unique heritage.

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