Princess Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales
aristocrat
30 November 1719 - 8 February 1772
Maria Antonia, Queen Consort of Sardinia
aristocrat
17 November 1729 - 19 September 1785
Thomas Banks
sculptor
29 December 1735 - 2 February 1805
After studying in Rome and working for Catherine the Great in Russia, Banks returned to England to become a leader of the Neoclassical movement. His most famous work is the monument to Penelope Boothby of 1793 in Ashbo.
Agnes Berry
29 May 1764 - 1852
Agnes Berry and her older sister Mary were inseparable for nearly the eighty-eight years that they shared together. Agnes travelled on Tour with her sister and father, Robert Berry, from 1783-85. This was the first tour for Agnes and Mary.
Robert Berry
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
, collector
26 April 1694 - 3 December 1753
Upon his father's death in 1704, Burlington inherited his title and estates. Burlington was a "gentleman" architect, building not out of professional economic necessity but as a passionate vocation. His Irish estates provided a major source of revenue for his projects, including the transformation of his suburban villa at Chiswick into a paradigm of classical architecture.
Francis Pierpoint Burton, 2nd baron Conyngham
administrator
c. 1725 - 22 May 1787
Francis Pierpoint Burton traveled to Italy with his tutor, Alexander Scott. At Turin, his friend and fellow Irishman Lord Charlemont offered to lend him money to join an expedition to the Levant (Eastern Mediterranean). John Ingamells has noted that "Burton has been described as playing Sancho Panza to Charlemont's Quixote."
Rosalba Carriera
painter
12 January 1673 - 15 April 1757
Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian painter known for her miniature portraits on oval-shaped pieces of ivory intended for snuff-box inlays. She produced portraits of many significant British, German, and French figures including Maximilian II of Bavaria, Frederick IV of Denmark, Louis XV of France, and Antoine Watteau. Her work was immensely popular with travelers to Venice, but Carriera also traveled widely throughout Italy, Germany, France, and Poland in her lifetime.
Abbé Casti
poet, author
29 August 1724 - 5 February 1803
Giovanni Battista Casti was an Italian poet and satirist who composed comic opera librettos and was well known for his use of the ottava rima meter. His most famous libretto was the Il re Teodoro in Venezia of 1784.
William Chambers
administrator
23 February 1723 - 8 March 1796
Sir William Chambers was a Scottish architect who worked mainly in London. After traveling throughout Italy, he settled in London in 1755. He began a successful career as an architect, and in 1769 earned the title of Comptroller of the Office Works.
Selina Chambers
daughter
late 1754-early 1755
Selina was the second daughter of William Chambers and Catherine More.
Humphrey Chetham
merchant
1680 - 1749
As a merchant in Livorno Chetham acted as shipping agent for William Kent in 1713-15.
Richard Child, 1st earl Tylney and 1st viscount Castlemaine
administrator, patron
February 5 1680 - March 1750
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
, draughtsman, designer
1727 - 14 December 1785
Cipriani trained in Florence under Iganzio Hugford. He went to Rome in 1750 where he became acquainted with travelers on the Grand Tour. In 1755, he went to London with William Chambers and Joseph Wilton where he settled until his death in 1785. He was considered one of the main contributors to the development of the Neo-classical decorative style. Some of his notable works include his restoration of Antonio Verrio's ceiling paintings at Windsor Castle and Peter Paul Reuben's ceiling at the Banqueting House in London.
Hendrik Willem Cramer-Azn
artist
1 April 1809 - 22 December 1874
Cramer was a Prix de Rome (Amsterdam) winner for painting.
Robert Ferguson of Raith
administrator
8 September 1769 - 3 December 1840
Robert Ferguson of Raith was Mary Nisbet's lover while she was married to Thomas Bruce. Eventually, he was tried for adultery with Nisbet and the two later married. At various times, Ferguson was a Whig Member of Parliament for Fifeshire, Haddingtonshire and Kirkcaldy Burghs. When he died, Ferguson was Lord Lieutenant of the county of Fife.
Karl Friedrich Friesen
administrator
25 September 1784 - 16 March 1814
Friesen was a Prussian soldier and gymnast, who studied at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin. He collaborated on the South American publications of Alexander von Humboldt, as well as drafting maps of Mexico.
Henry Fuseli
painter
7 February 1741 - 17 April 1825
Henry Fuseli (born Johann Heinrich Füssli) was a Swiss painter who made the acquaintances of many prominent artists in London (1765-1770, 1779-1825) and Rome (1770-1778). While in Rome, Fuseli exerted a profound influence from within a community of artists, including George Romney, James Northcote, and Thomas Banks. His 1765 translation of Winckelmanns "Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst" renewed interest in the art of ancient Greece and Rome.
Albert Gallatin
diplomat
29 January 1761 - 12 August 1849
Gallatin was treasurer under both Presidents Jefferson and Madison. He hosted Humboldt, Bonpland, and Montufar in Washington D.C. in July of 1804.
Henry Isaac Gervais
Fray Juan Gonzales
Sir William Richard Hamilton
diplomat
31 January 1731 - 6 April 1803
Sir William Richard Hamilton, FRS was a British antiquarian, traveller and diplomat. He was the private secretary and advisor of Thomas Bruce.
Cathrine Hamilton
human being
1738 - 25 August 1782
Catherine Barlow married Sir William Richard Hamilton on 26 January 1758. As his first wife, she accompanied Hamilton on his first two tours of Italy. She was such an accomplished harpsichordist that Leopold Mozart, when visiting the Hamiltons in Naples in May of 1770, complimented her on playing with an unusual degree of sensitivity. Although he was at first against the idea of marrying such "a virtuous, good-tempered woman," their marriage was a "lasting comfort" to Hamilton. After suffering a long illness, Catherine Hamilton died in Naples of "putrid fever" at the Villa Angelici on 25 August 1782.
Hoevenaar
Alexander von Humboldt
scientist
14 September 1769 - 6 May 1859
Alexander von Humboldt was a naturalist, statesman, and explorer who traveled extensively in South America between 1799 and 1804. He is best known for his master work, Cosmos, which attempted to unity all branches of scientific knowledge.
Ozias Humphry
painter
8 September 1742 - 9 March 1810
Ozais Humphry was a leading painter in portrait miniatures. He traveled widely in Italy and India.
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Travel played a pivotal role in the shaping of the intellectual and artistic culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. While capital cities such as Rome, Paris, and London served as major attractions for travelers, the increasing specialization and ease of mobility over the course of these centuries drove exploration into remote areas such as Greece, Egypt, and the Near East. Simultaneously, an interest in "national" landscapes and antiquities made infrequently trafficked local regions the focus of new forms of tourism. The ramifications of this expansion of cultural tourism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of recent scholarly debates since, and Itinera offers a platform through which contemporary interests may engage with these issues.
Visualizing, understanding, and generating new insights into the changing patterns and objectives for these types of travel are the primary motivators of behind Itinera. Designed to allow scholars and students to better comprehend the interconnected phenomena of mobility, object collection, and site documentation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Itinera is an map-based, interactive, digital resource that overlays and juxtaposes the movements of travelers alongside the objects of their study and their own creative output. Itinera therefore operates on between two central modelings. The "Travelers" section introduces a user of this site to the historical network in which individual agents existed, while the "Routes" and "Chronology" sections sketch the travels undertaken during their lifetimes.
This digital environment has been proactively developed to collect and present historical data within a richly and transparently -structured visual context. Itinera presents the opportunity for academics and enthusiasts alike to engage with the phenomena of cultural tourism through an innovative academic apparatus. These visualizations not only account for the pre-existing scholarship on individual tours, but more crucially, Itinera promotes user-centric inquiry into the creation of meaningful historical relationships among people, objects, and sites.